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Meet the Green Chemist Who Is Out To Make Chemicals Less Toxic for Humans and the Environment

John Warner brings us Green Chemistry, challenging chemists' toxicology standards.

Valerie Brown

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Hey Girl. Ryan Gosling Wants You to Watch This Video of Bernie Sanders Denouncing Racism.

The Hollywood star is asking followers to share a video of the presidential hopeful denouncing racism as a tool to divide and conquer ordinary Americans.

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New Hillary Clinton Emails Show She Wanted Credit for Libya Intervention in 2011. Now She Doesn’t.

The latest tranche of Clinton emails recalls her pivotal role in the U.S. intervention.

Branko Marcetic

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Meet the 24-Year-Old “RINO Hunter” On a Mission To Purge the GOP of Moderates

Zachary Werrell helped take down former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner. Now he's taking on the entire Republican establishment.

Waleed Shahid

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Civility and Its Discontents

Dissident academic Steven Salaita takes a stand in defense of incivility.

Charlotte Silver

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5 Questions the Center for American Progress Should Ask Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Today

The center-left think tank has come under fire for inviting the far-right prime minister to speak. Will they seize the opportunity to ask tough questions?

Marc Daalder

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Why SXSW’s ‘Harassment Summit’ Is a Terrible Solution to Harassment

Here's what we learned from the women targeted.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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How Henry Kissinger Helped Make Endless War an All-American Tradition

Kissinger's steadfast support for bombing as an instrument of “diplomacy” has coursed through the decades.

Greg Grandin

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How Wall Street Is Cashing In on Climate Catastrophe

Come hell or high water, the finance industry will make a killing

Kate Aronoff

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Why Bernie Sanders Is Different From Any Past Socialist Running For U.S. President

Sanders is heir to a long line of socialists campaigning for the nation's highest office, with a key difference—viability.

Joe Conason

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TPP: A Sweetheart Deal for Corporations, a ‘Disaster’ for People’s Rights

The White House has finally released the text of the trade deal, and the reviews are scorching.

Deirdre Fulton

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Undocumented Youth Are Here Through No Fault of Their Own. But It’s Not Their Parents’ Fault, Either

Using the phrase "no fault of their own" in discussing undocumented young people does not encourage us to look at the roots of the poverty and violence their families experience.

David Bacon

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With Kshama Sawant Claiming Reelection Victory, Seattle Doubles Down on Socialism

Sawant beat the establishment at its own game. Now comes the hard part.

Arun Gupta

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The Democratic Party Just Declared Its Opposition to Keystone XL. Was It An Accident?

A DNC email bashing Keystone may force Obama to take a firm position on the issue.

Branko Marcetic

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Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market

A 6-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated research. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.

Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman

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California’s New Crisis Pregnancy Center Law Creates a Roadblock for Anti-Abortion Activists

CPCs have been repeatedly charged with providing misleading or, in some cases completely false, information for pregnant women.

Rachel M. Cohen

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The Black Panther Party and the “Undying Love for the People”

The new documentary The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution is full of insights for today's racial justice activists.

Flint Taylor

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Why Canada’s Most Progressive Major Party Didn’t Make Big Gains at the Polls

While the New Democratic Party campaigned on a more progressive platform, the Liberals campaigned to the left just enough to sow doubt about the NDP—while the NDP moved to the center.

Gerard Di Trolio

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Lessons in Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance From the First Intifada: An Interview with Mubarak Awad

Mubarak Awad was one of the main organizers of the nonviolent resistance during the First Intifada and continues to practice strategic forms of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.

Waleed Shahid

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Why Are U.S. Special Forces Operations Expanding Across the Globe?

This year alone, U.S. Special Operations forces have been deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries—75% of the nations on the planet.

Nick Turse

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Faced With Exorbitant Utility Costs, New York State Residents Fight To Keep The Lights On

A housing rights organization in Poughkeepsie, New York, stands with its community against a utility company's attempt to disconnect low-income family homes.

Laura Gottesdiener

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At Colleges, Running Backs Get All the Greenbacks, While Academic Students Fight Over Crumbs

College football has become a bloated, multi-million dollar business, subverting the original mission of universities—education.

Gilbert M. Gaul

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For Israel, ‘Human Rights’ Has Meant the Right To Dominate Palestinians

The idea of human rights has too often been put to use by perpetrators rather than victims.

Belen Fernandez

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You Have Less Than Three Days To Bid on the Menstrual Blood Portrait of Donald Trump on eBay

Proceeds from the painting will go to an immigrant and workers rights organization in Portland.

Branko Marcetic