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Human Impacts and Climate Change Are Driving Destruction of Wetlands in Pakistan
Rapid population growth, wastewater pollution, an increase in dams – and sweeping changes wrought by climate change – are imperiling Pakistan's treasured wetlands and river systems.
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EpiPen Uproar Highlights Company’s Family Ties to Congress
Sen. Amy Klobuchar has demanded hearings on the EpiPen’s 450 percent price increase in just seven years.
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Public Banks Could Break the Impasse Over Marijuana Money
Because marijuana continues to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug, private banks are effectively prohibited from fully participating in this market.
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Escalating the War on Low-Income Families
It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.
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Clinton’s Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold
Rhetoric aside, Clinton is showing her full solidarity with Wall Street – most recently with the announcement that former Interior Secretary and oil and gas industry insider Ken Salazar will chair her transition team.
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The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter
Again and again, the movement has challenged the abandonment of Black communities underlying a wave of police violence.
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Fascism Revisited, Part I: A Cozy Relationship To Capitalism Takes Root
A new brand of fascism and far-right ideology is on the march, with demagogues moving towards power from Austria to the U.S., France to Finland, Greece to Germany.
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The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
A hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” is auctioning off authentic NSA software, part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide.
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Banlieues Debout Movement Targets Police Brutality, Economic Hardship In Paris Suburbs
The suburb-centric movement is a spinoff of Nuit Debout Paris, but functions independently of the horizontal, democracy-based protests from which it takes its name.
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The Justice Department Says it Will Stop Using Private Prisons
"They do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” the Deputy Attorney General says.
