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Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

Megan Tady

Comics

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Mikhaela B. Reid

Dispatch

Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

Michelle Chen

Review of Break Through

Brian Cook

Comics

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Terry LaBan

Musharraf’s Democracy

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NCLB? No sir.

Adam Doster

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The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March

The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid

Slavoj Žižek

You know what grinds my gears?

Adam Doster

Caging the Iran Hawks

Adam Doster

Feature

Banana Republic to Baby Republic

Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry

Jacob Wheeler

Congratulations Chris Hayes!

Anna Schneider

Culture

Suffering Secondary Trauma

Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking

Silja J.A. Talvi

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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet

Lindsay Beyerstein

Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

Anna Schneider

Can You Hear Me Now, or Should We Throw Another Fundraiser?

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Lead Toys for Tots

Sanhita SinhaRoy

Fake Vampire Teeth May Actually Poison your Blood

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