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Obama Speaks Out After 10 Killed in Oregon in Year’s 294th Mass Shooting

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine.”

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Who Cares for the Caregivers?

Caregifted grants respite to long-term family caregivers and works to increase public recognition of their gifts to society.

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‘It Won’t Be Hundreds of Thousands of Refugees in the Next 20 years, It Will Be Millions’

With higher temps, rising seas, droughts, floods, and storms, climate change is already becoming a driver of mass migrations.

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Why 1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day

Authors follow the lives of America’s poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.

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Reversing Market Pre-Distributions to the Rich

The market is tilted in the direction of moneyed interests exerting disproportionate influence, while average people lose power—economic and political.

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Did VW Expose Flaws in US Emissions-Testing?

News emerged last week that Volkswagen used a software trick to circumvent emissions testing, putting 1000s of high-polluting diesel cars onto U.S. roads.

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Why Big Tech May Be Getting Too Big

The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power.

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How the South Drives American Wages Down

A closer look at how the Southern slave labor system was rebooted and rolled out to the rest of America.

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Why the Republican Assault on Planned Parenthood is Morally Wrong and Economically Stupid

Planned Parenthood’s contraceptive services are one of the major reasons we don’t have more abortions in the United States.

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What Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common?

The Magna Carta is considered the foundation democracy and human rights. What’s the Great Charter’s connection to BlackLivesMatter?