Category: Politics and Current Events
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A First Amendment win in Wyoming, as a federal judge orders that William Ayers finally be allowed to speak.
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In the weeks leading up to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, nearly 3,000 babies and children were airlifted out of South Vietnam. Their exceptional journey has lessons for today.
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When Harvard University’s June Carolyn Erlick thinks of the upcoming election in Colombia, she thinks of horses.
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David Chura brings to light the high [hidden] costs of hungry teenagers in prison.
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Fred Pearce brings good news on the farming front from Machakos, a rural district of Kenya.
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Nancy Rubin Stuart takes aim at a bumper sticker and the “rear guard of popular thought.”
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Check out an excerpt from Fran Hawthorne’s new book: The Overloaded Liberal, which Greg Melville called “funny, poignant, and often eye-opening.”
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Sarah Palin won’t be the only one on Boston Common today. Chuck Collins will be out there too, thinking that this debate looks all too familiar.
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Things get complicated for same-sex couples filling out the Census forms. Nancy Polikoff looks at the many options for answering the government’s questions.
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