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“Cruel and absurd”
Back in early April, Charles Pierce wrote about the sentencing phase of the Boston Marathon bomber trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been found guilty and the jury would now decide his fate: life in prison or […]
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Restavek – “One who stays with” is the word for a child slave in Haiti.
Ignoring Haiti and its problems is par for the course in the United States, even when the U.S. has played a role in creating them. There was a flurry of concern around the time […]
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Aloha! Green Power!!
From ThinkProgress: Hawaii Will Soon Get All Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources The state legislature sent a bill to the governor’s desk this week that moves the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) up to 100 […]
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The Legacy of NAFTA
From Al Jazeera: When the ‘refrigerator capital of the world’ lost its refrigerator plant [The Hoisingtons] long-standing jobs with Electrolux, the multinational firm that took ownership of the plant in the 1980s, gave the couple […]