| Jan 23, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy, the study details, has made for the fastest...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe United States, by all metrics, has one of the cruelest prison systems in the world. In addition to having 25 percent of the world’s prison population (with just 5 percent of the world’s people), U.S. prisons use tortuous solitary confinement, tolerate...
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| Jan 16, 2019 | RoundupThis week marks Martin Luther King, Jr’s 90th birthday. In OtherWords, Jessicah Pierre reminds us that King advocated racial equality not only in civil rights, but also in economic matters. Yet today the racial wealth divide is growing, not shrinking — and...
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