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The Death Penalty, Missouri and the Continued Devaluing of Black Life
Death penalty states like Missouri have been treating their predominantly black death row prisoners like test subjects while protests over the worth of black life continue in Ferguson.
Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize
At age 17, Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize.
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ISIS vs. Ebola: A Blank Check to Bomb ISIS While Funding to Fight Ebola Is Slashed
A stunning disproportion in spending on ISIS versus Ebola crises highlights a fatal distortion in US priorities.
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Washington State Democrats to Challenge Hobby Lobby Decision
The upcoming election in Washington state just became a women's rights issue.
How Many Black Histories We Still Don’t Know: An Interview With Simone Leigh
An Interview With Simone Leigh.
Komen and the Pinkwashed Drill Bit: Fracking “For the Cure”
The Susan G. Komen foundation has taken “pinkwashing” breast cancer to a new extreme by partnering with a fracking firm to produce pink drill bits.
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Metal Madness: Lead Doesn’t Just Poison Birds, It Scrambles Everything They Need to Survive
It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, …
Bad Policy, Bad Medicine: Anti-Choice Law Leaves Vast Swaths of Texas With No Abortion Provider
San Antonio is now the last outpost for legal abortion in southern Texas.
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Developers Aren’t Going to Solve the Housing Crisis in San Francisco
The authors deconstruct and refute supply-side myths about how to create affordable housing in San Francisco - or any city - and propose some new approaches to affordable housing.