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Truthdigger of the Week: Angela Davis, an Activist for the Ages

Davis’ inspiring talk at the recent Women of the World festival shows that this civil rights icon is as relevant in today’s fraught world as in the turbulent era from which she sprang decades ago.

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Trump Set to Nominate Coal Lobbyist, Boeing Executive to Deputy Positions

The president’s latest hires confirm that his policy isn’t so much to drain the swamp as to fill it, according to many observers.

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Betting Big on the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament

March Madness and its accompanying betting-pool tradition go directly against the NCAA’s staunch anti-gambling policy, but “bracketology” accounts for billions of dollars changing hands.

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The Resistance Must Be Digitized

Ajit Pai (pictured at left), the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, could pose a threat to unfettered access to an open internet.

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Scientists Calculate That Humans Cause at Least Half the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

New research analyzes the decline of the region’s ecology by weighing natural variability and human factors.

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Rising Above Racism Is Imperative for Human Societies

Scapegoating immigrants absolves the true culprits—neoliberal capitalism and corporate greed—from blame. But this is too simplistic.

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Questions Arise About Gorsuch’s Views on Torture and Executive Power

Critics are concerned that the Supreme Court nominee won’t offer an adequate check on Donald Trump’s agenda.

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President Blowback: How the Invasion of Iraq Came Home

If you want to know where Donald Trump came from, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter. Look someplace far more improbable: Iraq.

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Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought

The president presides over an America in which “analysis and historical memory have given way to a culture of spectacles, sensationalism and immediacy,” says journalist Henry A. Giroux.

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If ‘Ryancare’ Is Dead on Arrival, Can We Please Now Try Single-Payer?

The problem for policymakers is that they have been trying to fund an inefficient and overpriced medical system with scarce taxpayer funds without capping costs.

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