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Sep 09 2019
News
How Greta Thunberg Captured Our Attention on Climate
It’s been a year since teenage Swedish climate protester Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Parliament building in Stockholm. The New Yorker’s Masha Gessen profiled her in October 2018, and that’s when I first heard of her: her trademark braids framing a round face, her depression and Asperger’s diagnoses, how she’d convinced her opera-singer mom to stop flying and her
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May 30 2020
Analysis
How Federal Marijuana Policy Is Pushing Veterans into the Black Market
Alex is 34 and lives outside of Sacramento. Like many Californians, he vapes marijuana concentrate for a variety of health problems such as anxiety. But even though he lives within a half-hour drive of a legal dispensary, Alex purchases his cannabis on what he likes to call the “duty-free” market. About once a month, he drives an hour to an acquaintance’s house to purchase about an ounce of
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Oct 08 2012
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Poverty, Assets, and Safety Net
Government safety net programs aim to protect families during tough timesâ€â€before they fall into poverty. But rising unemployment, foreclosures, and economic distress are putting pressure on a system already in need of updates and repairs.
Urban Institute experts, building on decades of welfare reform research, evaluated public safety nets and proposed new initiatives to bolster
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Nov 18 2014
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Breitbart Runs False Headline On Norman Lear, Lear Responds Perfectly
Television writer and producer Norman Lear faulted Breitbart Monday night after a headline on the conservative news site twisted his recent interview on MSNBC to suggest he had attacked the tea party.
Lear, 92, famed creator of "All in the Family," appeared on MSNBC's "The Cycle" Monday to talk about his new memoir, Even This I Get To Experience, and reflected on how society and
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Dec 29 2015
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‘Affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch captured in Mexico
Ethan Couch, the Texas teenager from a wealthy family sought by U.S. authorities after he disappeared earlier this month, has been detained in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, according to reports.
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Dec 26 2019
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The Survivors: These Trump officials have weathered controversies from the start – and are still here
Meet the Trump administration survivors.
People like Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller and Betsy DeVos joined President Trump’s team at the beginning. They've occasionally -- or in some cases, repeatedly -- found themselves embroiled in controversies. But unlike the many other ex-Trump officials who’ve resigned, or been fired or pushed out, these stalwarts haven’t gone anywhere.
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Apr 24 2021
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Vaccine passports: Pandemic spurs rise of portable health records
On a snowy April morning, Laurie Riley is heading to Aruba. Prior to the pandemic, she would come to Boston’s Logan Airport with her ticket and passport. Now, she also carries her COVID-19 test results before boarding the flight. She printed them out and also put them on an app in her cellphone, called CommonPass.
In Aruba, the pass will give her access to dedicated immigration lanes
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May 28 2020
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How a “Bunch of Badass Queer Anarchists” Are Teaming Up With Locals to Block a Pipeline Through Appalachia
“Life in these mountains ain’t always been easy, so people around here take a stand when they see something they don’t agree with—and I’m one of them,” says walrus-mustached Jammie Hale in his thick southwestern Virginia mountain accent. “People that grow up in places like this, seeing their environment destroyed, it stirs them, it causes people to want to get involved, and that’s why I’m
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Oct 01 2020
Analysis
The definitive case for ending the filibuster
Every argument for the filibuster, considered and debunked.
If Joe Biden wins the White House, and Democrats take back the Senate, there is one decision that will loom over every other. It is a question that dominated no debates and received only glancing discussion across the campaign, and yet it is the master choice that will either unlock their agenda or ensure they fail to deliver
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Jul 09 2012
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Obama pushes for tax hike on top earners, extension of Bush-era rates for others
President Obama, amid charges of class warfare, pushed Monday for a tax hike on families earning more than $250,000 -- and an extension of the Bush-era tax rates for families making less than that. The president, speaking in the East Room of the White House, said he wants to break through the "stalemate" over taxes in Congress. He argued that sustaining the current tax rates for top earners
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