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Barack Obama
ICE Raids Target Undocumented Immigrants for Mostly Minor Offenses
President Obama's policy to prosecute “bad immigrants” is less like reform and more like a means to continue deportations.
Will Guantánamo Ever Close? Fourteen Years After Prison’s Opening, Indefinite Detention Persists
President Obama's plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to merely relocating it to US soil.
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Hillary Clinton, Corporate America and the Democrats’ Dilemma
Hillary Clinton's candidacy is an example of corporate power attempting to define the range of acceptable opinion in the US.
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Black Struggle Is Not a Sound Bite: Why I Refused to Meet With President Obama
As a radical, Black organizer, I do not feel that a handshake with the president is the best way for me to honor Black lives.
How Scalia’s Absence Will Affect Pending Supreme Court Cases
Following Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's death, what will happen to the cases pending in the Supreme Court?
Irrational Arguments About the Coal Industry
In what moral or even economic universe is it obviously wrong to limit emissions of neurotoxins?
The President Who Will Not Close Guantánamo
In Obama's final year as president, there are still around 100 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
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Obama Builds a Legacy: Deporting Women and Children to Death
In his last address to Congress, the US president barely mentioned immigration, showing he's now content to enforce the status quo.
Obama’s Last State of the Union and the Myth of Bipartisanship
President Obama still hasn't learned his lesson about Republicans.
How Much Could Obama’s Gun Moves Affect Gun Violence? Nobody Knows
Will simply explaining current law more clearly help save lives?