By Alexander Mallin Article Reprint President Barack Obama said today that the Supreme Court‘s “heartbreaking” decision to block his immigration executive action “takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.”
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How Gov. Jindal’s Voucher Program is Like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments
(Experiment: Take state tax-payers’ money and give it to failing private schools. Then fill those schools with poor Black children. Procedure: Observe, but do not intervene. Let nature run its course.) By Michel Holzman
Read moreA Proposed Tax on Soda Is Proving There’s No More Room for Sugar-Coating
By Bonita Article Reprint Sugar has developed a bad rap in recent months. While it’s always had its fair share of critics, its negative effects on health seem to populate more headlines today than they
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Trump: Clinton Policies ‘Wrong’ on Fighting Terrorism
Read moreThe Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
How the Supreme Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment. By Dorothy Samuels Article Reprint In common with the other big rightward swerves by the Roberts Court, the 2008 ruling in District of
Read moreSenate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing
By: Michael Isikoff Article Reprint The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time
Read moreThis South American country has decriminalized all drugs for 40 years
By: Melia Robinson Article Reprint For over 40 years, an interesting social experiment has been going on in the tiny South American country of Uruguay. In 1974, the government made it legal to possess drugs.
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Sanders Meets With Obama, Plans to Continue Race
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