By Gary Younge / TomDispatch —
The presence of gangs in neighborhoods where many American children are killed with guns daily is used as a way to dismiss serious thinking about why this is happening.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
“[Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s] decision to hike membership dues 50 percent will increase the trade group’s considerable coffers to more than $300 million per year,” Politico reports.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
New studies warn that such dangerous weather events could occur regularly in the U.S. if the burning of fossil fuels continues.
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“Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee discusses the prevalence of hospitals run by the Catholic Church that refuse to perform certain life-saving procedures on women due to religious dogma.
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Republican presidential candidate could stretch out the election long after Nov. 8 with lawsuits. Tying up the electoral process in the courts would be his greatest case.
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By Derek Willis / ProPublica —
If you think voter fraud is an unprosecuted crime, tell that to the Maryland investigators who knocked on my front door in 2014.
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By Sarah Lazare / AlterNet —
Water protectors have endured dog attacks, invasive strip searches and military-style checkpoints.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
Donald Trump’s pronouncement that the Mosul campaign is bound to fail is an affront to the Iraqi and U.S. troops risking their lives against Islamic State.
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After more than two years, there may soon be significant movement on the case.
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Here’s yet another reason to be concerned about the implications of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner: The Daily Beast has detailed a sophisticated surveillance program created by AT&T that has been covertly providing U.S. law enforcement with consumers’ data. And guess who profits from “Project Hemisphere”?
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By Allen Barra — His first reclamation project was the Boston Red Sox. Now, Epstein, as president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, has made good on his promise to transform the team into a World Series contender.
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By KiMi Robinson — Gary Tyler spent 42 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Now he is speaking out in behalf of America’s prison population.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
A major crude-oil pipeline in Oklahoma sprang a leak Sunday night. The company has yet to provide an estimate of volume spilled.
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By Tom Hayden — From the archives: The fundamental issue underlying the attitudes of the May Day protesters is that “either the Mexicans (and other Latinos) are immigrants to a country called the United States or the U.S. is a Machiavellian power that denies occupying one-half of Mexico for 156 years.”
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Despite all the fearmongering about Russian hackers, there’s a vulnerability closer to home that could compromise the November election; purebreds may not actually fit under the definition of a dog; meanwhile, a pirate party may be taking over Iceland’s government. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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By Alec MacGillis / ProPublica —
Hillary Clinton looks increasingly likely to win the White House, but her party faces a big obstacle to success in congressional races: Democrats are sorting themselves into geographic clusters where many of their votes have been rendered all but superfluous.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
Iraqi forces continued their advance on Mosul on Sunday despite the car bombs and sniping tactics of Islamic State.
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By Julia Angwin / ProPublica —
Over the summer, the tech giant substituted new language in its privacy policy that says browsing habits “may be” combined with what the company learns from a user’s use of gmail and other tools.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The Chinese government is committed to stringing eight new ultra-high-voltage power lines, designed mainly to transmit electricity from wind farms, across the country.
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By Eugene Robinson — Not enough has been made of two obvious facts: Hillary Clinton, if she wins the presidency, would be the first woman elected to the White House. And it will have been the votes of women who put her there.
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