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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
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To Infinity and Beyond: Navigating the Global Void
Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.
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Exxon Spill: 25 Years of Tears
Twenty Five years after the fact, Exxon has yet to pay Alaska the $92 million owed for damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They privatized their profits and …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: When Business and Politics Mix, the Public Pays the Price, and More
There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.
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Reckoning Time for Lawbreaking Utilities on Coal Ash?
Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.
The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
So many of the assertions made about “maximizing shareholder value” are false that they should be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
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Boston Endangered: Time To Close the Pilgrim Reactor
The 42-year-old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, only 35 miles from Boston, poses unacceptable threats to human and environmental safety.
DREAM Act Narrowly Fails in NY Senate After Gov. Andrew Cuomo Failed to Push Passage
The New York State Senate has rejected a bill that would have provided tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant college students.
Are Tuition Breaks Enough To Combat High Student Debt and Low Graduation Rates?
The University of Baltimore's Peter Toran and UC-Santa Barbara graduate student Samir Sonti discuss UB's plan to offer students a free final semester of tuition, and agree that federal …
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Rent in a Warming World
What's rent got to do with climate change? More than you might think.