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ALEC Ratified NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin’s Killer
A Florida law that may protect the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February is the template for an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “model bill” …
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The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn’t Set Gas Prices
America produces 200 times as much oil as Germany, but our gas prices rise and fall in tandem (we pay far lower gas taxes). Source: Energy Information Administration and …
David Bacon on How US Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration
Noted journalist, author, documentary photographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon discussed the issues raised in his provocative and heavily-researched article, “How U.S. Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration.” …
Walking While Black: Florida Police Resist Calls to Arrest Shooter of Unarmed Teen, Trayvon Martin
The Justice Department and the FBI have announced they will conduct a criminal probe of the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ensuing police investigation that allowed his killer …
Murder Incorporated: Guns, the NRA and the Politics of Violence on the Mexican Border
Sign on road just before main bridge into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Mark Karlin)An Iron River of Guns Flows Across the Border A phalanx of US law enforcement …
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Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where …
With Larry Summers’ World Bank Bid in Trouble, Mexico Insists on Open Process
Larry Summers speaks at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic Forum) Early …
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …
Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror
By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …