“Has something gone adrift within the moral compass of our ‘news’ reporting?” asks Robert Fisk at The Independent.
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In mid-April, the presidential front-runner’s favorability rating among her own partisans dropped to about half of its peak last fall.
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A World Prison Brief study released earlier this year found that the number of people held in detention centers worldwide may exceed 11 million.
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Spencer Ackerman of The Guardian interviews six families on how their lives have been changed by U.S. drone strikes.
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Israeli lawmaker Haneen Zoabi declined to participate in a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, citing her inability to speak out against what she called the “frightening similarity” between Nazi Germany’s behavior and Israel’s policies in the occupied territories, reports the newspaper Haaretz.
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A coalition of campus organizations interrupted the school’s “Cal Day” to draw attention to a $5 million fund that is set to expire soon. The money was originally earmarked for immigration attorneys, psychologists and a textbook rental system.
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An editor removed the attributions from writer Shaun King’s column, causing a storm of plagiarism accusations against King (pictured).
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By Eugene Robinson —
Since the ancient Greeks began stamping coins with images of their gods, nations have used currency to define a pantheon of heroes.
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The results of a Harvard University study of stalled Internet upgrades in Western Massachusetts reveal the nation’s need for open, impartial Internet access for all.
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Perhaps what’s missing from the 2016 presidential race “isn’t the anti-imperialist [Bernie] Sanders” but “the antiwar movement he was once part of, and which no longer exists.”
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By Mark Heisler — In determining the effect of concussions on the lives of football players, nobody lawyers up while making sincere protestations of loving the other side like the NFL commissioner.
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By Paul Von Blum — April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The 1.5 million Armenians who perished in the genocide are often an abstract statistic, but a powerful new book, based on the journals of the author’s grandfather who lived through the atrocity, may help change that.
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More than 42,000 Americans killed themselves in 2014, and middle-aged people are leading the trend.
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In an open letter, a technician for the telecommunications giant told his CEO that he and his colleagues are not “tools”—as one manager had hurtfully suggested—but men and women with lives, needs and dignity.
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By Pratap Chatterjee / TomDispatch —
American drones not only terrorize the populations living under their constant surveillance, they also psychologically wound their own operators, leaving victims with post-traumatic stress disorder on opposite sides of the globe.
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By Valerie Brown / Climate News Network —
Low oil prices have reduced pressure to exploit Arctic fossil fuels and boosted hopes that the region’s fragile environment and indigenous people may be better protected.
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The musician, 57, was found dead at his home following earlier reports of severe flu-like symptoms.
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By Thor Benson — Noel Schwerin spent seven years documenting the lives of a prison warden, a separatist murderer and a former gang member at California’s Soledad Correctional Facility. The resulting film not only looks at the lives of these men but also gives viewers a sense of the enormity of the problems facing the American correctional system.
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Theoretically, the agreement will settle more than 600 lawsuits filed after the revelation that VW cheated on its emissions tests.
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By Kasia Anderson — Here’s a bit of breaking news that may have an impact on this election cycle: Friends of Abe, a secret organization made up of some 1,500 right-leaning members of the Hollywood community, is dissolving.
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