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This City Came Up With a Simple Solution to Homelessness: Housing
Salt Lake City's Housing First initiative has reduced chronic homelessness by 72 percent. Now other cities are giving it a try.

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The Fearleaders for War
Cue the racist panic.

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Greek Politics in the Age of the Euro Crisis and the Urgent Task for Left Unity
In an underdeveloped Balkan country in which corruption and cronyism largely constitute the driving forces of “development” and “social progress,” Greece's only hope of revival from its moral and …

Why There’s a Real Chance My Texas Town Might Ban Fracking
The history of Denton's struggle with fracking reveals why the gas industry's “responsible drilling” propaganda is deceitful and why a total ban is necessary.

Official Sources May Be the Only Sources
Risen case tests reporters' power to reveal government wrongdoing.

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The United States’ Grand Fortunes Go Overboard
With middle-class net worth crumbling, the Forbes 400 grow wealthier than ever.

Vote November 4: Defeat Suppression of Minorities, Youth, Workers
The right wing is attempting to rig and steal the election.

Fighting the Last War: Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis?
Ebola seems to mimic some of the characteristics experts long ago assigned to al-Qaeda and its various wannabe and successor outfits.

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Israel-Palestine: Untying the Knot
To untie the knot of issues that lies at the center of the Middle East tangle, the US must use its military aid to Israel and Egypt as a …

Keeping Faith in Democracy
“Democracy has been meant to remove the artificial constraints, poverty is the huge artificial constraint on human thought and action,” says author Marilynne Robinson.