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FiveThirtyEight Gets it Wrong on Venezuela
Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project US elections, launched a new blog u2013 FiveThirtyEight.com last month. It's been off to …
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The Life and Death of the “Great” American Mall
The mall will be both maligned and recalled fondly by those of us who grew up with it, but it will not be replaced by another equally potent symbol …
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On the Movie “Divergent”: Virtue Facing Dystopia
We are living in times of radical political impotence.
Current Philippine Government and Military Using Ongoing Extra-Judicial Killings Targeting Activists, Poor, Left and Media
On March 25, William Bugatti, a 43 year old human rights worker for Karapatan, one of the Philippines' main human rights organizations, was shot to death. He was the …
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The Thin Veil of Rationality
We try to present a facade of rationality to the world...
Why Religious Leaders Are Speaking Up in Support of Universal Contraceptive Access
In today's context of higher population density, resource scarcity and revolutionary contraceptive options, a “let go and let God” approach to family planning no longer promotes the wellbeing of …
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The Desperation of the Vanishing Middle Class
The underlying problem with financial advice is that, even in the best case, it rarely works.
What Media Should Know About Hobby Lobby and the Fight for Contraceptive Access
Hobby Lobby, a secular, for-profit corporation, plans to wrongly argue before the Supreme Court today that emergency contraception, a form of preventive service like birth control that all health …
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Oh, the Humanity
There are now some 5.66 million missing workers in the United States, neither counted nor accounted for. To notice them would be to raise the unemployment rate to at …
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Egypt’s Security Concerns Compound the Deterioration of the Lives of Civilians of Gaza
It would seem impossible that the lives of the people of Gaza could get worse, but indeed they have.