USA

The recent shooting at Ottawa’s parliament building has brought into sharp focus just how easy it is for a society to obfuscate a criminal tragedy into political opportunism in this…
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Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, are only the most widely known of the countless numbers of black people killed by police or vigilantes during the…
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The reason the media doesn’t cover these issues is because “it’s not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that they…
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When you stop and take a closer look at Jeb Bush, you find that there are many reasons to scrutinize his potential presidential run.
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It’s ironic that a policy designed to isolate Cuba has wound up isolating the United States in profound ways. If anything it boosts Cuban diplomatic standing.
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We provide superb education for elites, but we falter at mass education.
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As Elena Poniatowska said in Mexico City last Sunday, before thousands of moved and indignant Mexicans: "We must raise our protest to the skies."
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Unicef report finds number of children entering poverty during global recession is 2.6 million greater than number lifted out of it.
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Our country’s oldest and longest struggle has been to enlarge democracy by making it possible for more and more people to be treated equally at the polls. The right to participate in…
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Within this context, the U.S.’s elected officials seem to be the party generating a narrative that doesn’t match the evidence provided by the American public: widespread skepticism of…
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