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As the Bush era comes to a close, the Justice Department starts to question the administration's selective enforcement of voting rights law.
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The biggest obstacle to young voters is not apathy, but removing barriers that complicate the process for new voters.
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People embrace the buying of local food; has the time come for local energy co-operatives, too?
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Legal protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence are growing more complex and in some ways, more precarious.
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Legal protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence are growing more complex and in some ways, more precarious.
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Bottled water is a joke, one of the biggest consumer and taxpayer ripoffs ever.
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The media portrays female suicide bombers as coerced, but the factors that drive women to strap on explosives are often the same that drive men.
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Salim Hamdan's military commission trial "will never be seen as legitimate by the world."
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Widely considered a trial of the military commissions system itself, the Hamdan trial was a two-week exercise in government secrecy and propaganda.
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Susan Squire on why it will take more than a couple of decades to transform a 5,000-year-old institution.
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The deadliest biological assault on the United States may have been perpetrated by a church-going white man, with anthrax from our own weapons labs.
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Conservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.
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Reducing our meat consumption may not be popular, but we need to view our love affair with burgers in the same frame as gas-guzzling SUVs.
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Pentagon official doesn't show up at a hearing on sexual assault in the military despite a subpoena; Congressmembers accuse DoD of a cover-up.
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Today no one can even envision when the Republicans will control the presidency and both houses of the Congress as they did just two years ago.
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Survivors and relatives of those killed by anthrax attacks aren't buying the FBI's account that government scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible.
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A third of female veterans are women of color. Three of them share their stories of systematic racial discrimination.