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Human Rights

  • Who will police the police now that Trump’s Justice department is retreating?

    ProPublica

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 12/02/2018 - 04:40

  • America has desegregated in name only

    Paul Street / Truthdig

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/30/2018 - 05:35

  • Here's how white colonizers set us up for uncontrollable wildfires

    Louise Dunlap / YES! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/30/2018 - 05:28

  • The Trump administration has started separating immigrant families again — and giving dubious explanations about why

    Ginger Thompson / ProPublica  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 11/27/2018 - 16:04

  • Big pharma greed and bad government policy are hampering global efforts to end AIDS

    Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 11/27/2018 - 08:48

  • Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander: Trump is 'undercutting our most powerful appeal' of American values and human rights

    Matthew Chapman / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 11/21/2018 - 06:30

  • Here's how a right-wing political party devolves into murder and assault when it doesn’t get its way

    Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 11/20/2018 - 12:34

  • Thanksgiving? No, thanks.

    Robert Jensen / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/16/2018 - 02:43

  • Here's why your search results are racist and sexist: A conversation about Google’s blind spots

    Lauren Schiller / Salon

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/16/2018 - 02:28

  • New recording seen as evidence that Trump ally Mohammad bin Salman directed Khashoggi killing: report

    Matthew Chapman / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 11/12/2018 - 16:00

  • 'The Worst Attorney General in Modern History': Jeff Sessions' Last Act at the DOJ Solidified His Devotion to Racist Policies

    Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:12

  • Trump's Cruel New Asylum Policy Is a Blatant and Illegal Attack on Immigrants Seeking Refuge

    Julia Conley / Common Dreams  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/09/2018 - 09:53

  • Most of the World Does Not Like U.S. Foreign Policy

    Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 11/06/2018 - 11:39

  • Noam Chomsky Argues the 'Revival of Hate' Fueled by Trump's Rhetoric Extends Back to Ronald Reagan

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/02/2018 - 10:55

  • The Cost of Trump's Lawless Words: Foreign Army Cites White House Speech to Justify a Reported Massacre of Protesters

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 11/02/2018 - 10:02

  • Trump's 'Unlawful Order': National Security Expert Explains Why the Military Will Not Follow the President's Cruel Directions

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 11/01/2018 - 19:14

  • Damning New Report Details How Trump's State Department Has Made the World Worse for Women and LGBTQ People

    Matthew Chapman / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 11/01/2018 - 16:59

  • Trump Just Duped the Media Into Airing a Barrage of His Lies — Including a Vicious Threat to Immigrants

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 11/01/2018 - 13:53

  • 'She's Trying to Take Us to Socialism': Pennsylvania Republican Official Calls Cops on Interracial Couple for Canvassing in Gated Community

    Travis Gettys / Raw Story  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 11/01/2018 - 04:56

  • From Charleston to Tree of Life: White Nationalism Is a Threat to Us All

    Reverend Jennifer Bailey, Dove Kent / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/30/2018 - 12:17

  • The New Brazilian President Could Wreak Destruction on the Amazon Rainforest

    Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/30/2018 - 09:03

  • What To Do When White Nationalism Lives Too Close to Home

    Sandra Bass / YES! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/29/2018 - 02:42

  • So Long, Megyn Kelly: Now We Know Your Racism Was Always Perfectly Sincere

    Amanda Marcotte / Salon

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 10/27/2018 - 04:54

  • 'We Don't Have a Functioning Government!': MSNBC Guest Slams Trump as a 'Child' Surrounded by Scared and Weak Subordinates

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/24/2018 - 14:22

  • Internet Blasts Trump's Weak and Bizarre Comments About Saudi Plot to Kill Khashoggi

    Matthew Chapman / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/23/2018 - 15:02

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    16. Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood after states try to cut off Medicaid funding

    17. Harvard law professor issues scathing takedown of DOJ policy that bars prosecutors from indicting a sitting president

    18. Ex-CIA Director John Brennan nails Trump: ‘Impossible for you to escape justice’

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      Legal experts and prosecutors dismantle Trump's claim his secret payment to Stormy Daniels was a 'simple private transaction'

    23. It's not just Silicon Valley: Here's the history behind imperialistic technology that's permeated the Bay Area for 500 years

    24. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims WASPs were better rulers — and longs to restore the white elite

    25. 'Theology of the Antichrist': A closer look at the heresy of white Christianity

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 12/08/2018 - 05:00

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 12/08/2018 - 05:05

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 12/08/2018 - 04:11

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 12/09/2018 - 05:31

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 12/09/2018 - 10:22

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 12/09/2018 - 07:14

    8. Wall Street's corruption runs deeper than you can fathom

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 12/08/2018 - 04:38

    9. We’ve been celebrating two Wright Brothers when we should be celebrating just one

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 12/08/2018 - 05:18

    10. Mueller keeps closing in as Trump rages — but Republicans still believe they're simply entitled to rule

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