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Bearding the Supreme Court
Last spring, the Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case that corporations have the right to freedom of religious…
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Healthcare is a right
I have written before about the high cost ($84K for a course of treatment) of Sovaldi, the new game-changing hepatitis…
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Africa Summit: More hype than substance
While all the press was about the “historic” summit between Africa and the United States, make no mistake about it:…
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Young people on Watergate: ‘What did you expect?’
On the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that lead to the impeachment and resignation of President Richard Nixon, the…
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Rauner and Quinn: officers in the enemy’s army
The race for governor of Illinois will be one of the most closely watched this election season. Bruce Rauner, the…
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EMTs stand in the way of NYPD assault
In an exclusive story published by the Daily News, reporter Tina Moore writes about how two Emergency Medical Technicians with…
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Can we rely on the courts to defend abortion rights?
On July 29, a three judge federal appeals panel blocked implementation of a TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion practitioners) law…
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Teachers descend on U.S. Dept. of Education
Asean Johnson The Bad Ass Teachers, a national organization of teachers who “refuse to be blamed for the failure of…
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Community comes to defense of immigrant children
On July 22 community members and various organizations came together to defend the rights of immigrant children. They took their…
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Despite reform, worst parts of ‘War on Drugs’ left in place
The United States Sentencing Commission has again made a major decision taking a step back from some of the more…
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