James Neimeister
James Neimeister is a freelance writer from Ohio. His interests include: Russia, Ukraine, education, technology, and "cyberspace."

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How Russia rejected its latest anti-gay law, and what its failure means

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Why this is both less and more important than you think.
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How Republican-led states are rigging energy markets

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“Free market” capitalists selling fossil fuels seem to have a problem with competition from solar power.
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What a climate deal in Paris might actually accomplish

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Specifics aside, its precedent will likely be huge.
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Meet the activists who would co-op(t) the tech industry

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As tech becomes increasingly powerful, workers are looking to take on — and ownership of — the platforms.
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The media are not always an activist’s friend

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Activists have always had conflicts with media.
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Conservatives have their own PC culture

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And it punches down in defense of existing power structures.
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George Will’s mental acrobatics on poverty and climate change

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George Will vs. Pope Francis on climate change and the vices of capitalism. The Pope wins.
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CONFIRMED: Scott Walker is a Labrador

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Sources close to the Wisconsin governor say it will help him with the whole “diversity” thing.
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We already track some visitors “like FedEx packages.” It works terribly.

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If Chris Christie had done even a little homework, he’d know that we already track many foreign nationals.
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Bernie, interrupted

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What Saturday’s direct action should tell Bernie Sanders’s supporters about the movement he’s building.
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Prepare the way, for the Jeb! cometh

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JEB… the campaigning chaos… He has risen out of Florida to break his bone-bread over the earth… Heed these words! There are some who say these times of planet-shattering upheavals ...
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OXI dokey: A report from a Greek solidarity rally

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A report from rally in Queens in support of the OXI movement in Greece.
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On the courts, the Confederate flag and Jennicet Gutiérrez

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Intersections between speech, identity, activism and culture.
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