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Environment
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Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical“
Keystone XL will require Obama to issue formal authorization, a key bit of leverage that activists are now hoping to use in the weeks ahead.
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All the Eyes on Immigration Reform
The time for broad immigration reform in the United States has arrived. As a country founded by immigrants, the United States, which has long extolled the American dream and …
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Yahoo Bans Working From Home: “Progress” or a Big Step Backwards?
New policy banning working from home at Yahoo brings up issues with working mothers and employees with disabilities.
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Fleeing His Own War on Drugs, Felipe Calderón Finds Refuge at Harvard
Citizens from 28 countries are petitioning Calderu00f3n's fellowship.
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Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars
Johnny isn't able to think critically - and that's the point of a corporate-business model of education.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Justice Antonin Scalia Describes Key Provision in Voting Rights Act as a “Perpetuation of Racial Entitlement,” and More
During oral arguments about Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia described the key provision as a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”
Radical Reading: The Progressive Dr. Seuss
Seuss uses ridicule, satire, wordplay and nonsense words to take aim at bullies and demagogues.
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I Became an Orthodoxy, All on My Own
Paul Krugman: I guess I'm such a big guy that I'm an orthodoxy all by myself.
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On Anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s Death, ALEC-Backed Stand Your Ground Laws Remain on Books
One year on, the controversial Stand Your Ground gun law continues to do harm.
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Paul Krugman | The Perils of Hoarding Cash
Corporations are taking a much bigger slice of total income, and are showing little inclination to invest it.