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How Banks Stole Homes From the Most Vulnerable New Yorkers
“Reverse redlining” flooded communities of color with toxic mortgages, practically ensuring default.
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Latinos, Police Brutality and the Blame Game
Is the media to blame for Latinos’ absence in the debate about police-community relations?
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How Protesters at the RNC Can Protect Themselves From Digital Surveillance
Activists at the political conventions should prepare themselves and their cellphones.
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One Woman's 10-Year Fight to Save Her Family From Foreclosure
"If we had known from the beginning how corrupt the system was, we probably never would have started."
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Flash Floods Have Killed Hundreds In Pakistan, Where Severe Climate Change Is Just Beginning
Glaciers are melting, extreme floods are becoming commonplace, and the country's infrastructure is struggling to keep up as climactic changes wreak havoc, threatening people's daily existence across Pakistan.
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Pokémon Go is everything that is wrong with late capitalism
Last week, two things happened that will have long-lasting impact on American society and the global economy. First, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to a record low of 1.366 percent. Second, Nintendo released Pokémon Go.
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Turkey widens purges to police after coup bid, Europe warns on rule of law
Authorities have rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Free State of Jones" and "The Purge: Election Year"
These new films ask: Are we primed to drown in the culture of fear created for us? Doomed to waste one another in most excessive ways, while the wealth remains undisbursed?
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Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror
Impoverished urban communities have evolved into miniature police states.
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In First, U.S. Judge Throws Out Cell Phone "Stingray" Evidence Obtained Without Warrant
For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.
