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Environment
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Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor
When the overall unemployment rate goes up, the rate for the less-educated and minorities rises even more.
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Hawks Push for Iraq War, the Rule of Law Prevents It
Obama does not have the authority to go to war without congressional authorization.
Dahr Jamail | Atmospheric CO2 Crosses “Ominous Threshold“
Despite the widespread governmental denial of anthropogenic climate disruption, many signs indicate we are already past the point of no return, headed toward a “dead planet.”
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Inaction Feeds Crisis Over Mississippi River, Environmentalists Say
Southern Louisiana is losing land masses the size of the nation's capital to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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When Nature Gets a Price Tag
Will the calculus of putting monetary value on the environment save the planet, or subordinate a rapidly collapsing natural world to market forces?
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Restoring the Right to Vote
Last year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement's crowning achievements. Now, its time for Congress to pick up the pieces.
Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health
After mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually …
Canadian Mining in Latin America: Exploitation, Inconsistency, and Neglect
A dichotomy exists between mining by foreign investors who profit, and the communities in which it takes place which frequently are left by the wayside. The situation has worsened …
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Despite Promised Jobs, Desert Town Opposes Giant Copper Mine
A multinational corporation Rio Tinto, wants to convince the federal government to let it mine beneath the campground and surrounding land against the wishes of residents.
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Terminal Life: On the Pure Space of Neoliberalism
Terminal life is the situational embodiment of a neoliberal subject suspended between spatial and temporal points of intersection leading to a great distancing from ourselves as humans.