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December 9 - The Polarized Reaction to the Torture Report; America's Torture Doctors; Will Shoddy Reporting Become an Excuse for Denying Campus Rape?

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July 24 - Arizona's Botched Execution; Israeli Tourism Takes a Hit; GOP Immigrant-Bashing Will Backfire Over the Long Term

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July 6 - Children are Fleeing Countries We Broke with Military Regimes; Will a President Hillary Clinton Embrace the Neocons?; Indonesia about to Elect a "Pychopath"; Why the South Votes for Politicians Who Lower Their Standard of Living

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June 11 - The Latest Fallout from the Disastrous Bush/ Cheney Intervention in Iraq; Combating Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

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February 17 - A UN Report Comparing North Korea to Nazi Germany; How Repealing Gun Control Laws Leads to More Gun Violence and Murder; Manufacturing a Crisis With Iran

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January 21 - Industrial Scale Killing of Detainees by the Assad Regime; Hired Thugs as Provocateurs in Ukraine's Protests; Is Snowden a Russian Asset

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January 12 - 300,000 West Virginians Still Without Safe Water; Homophobia and Racism Empowered in Putin's Russia; More Than Half of Congress Not Only Represent the 1%, They are the 1%

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December 22 - Soudan Sudan Dividing Along Tribal Lines; The Battle for the Soul and Direction of the Democratic Party; A Syrian Doctor Speaks Out at Perilous Risk

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December 19 - Putin’s Show of Magnanimity; South Sudan’s Descent into Civil War; Detroit’s Bankruptcy Judge Halts Giveaway to Banks

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December 5 - A Report From the Front Line of Fast-Food Worker's Protests; The Growing Economic Feudalism in the United States; As Mandela Dies, So is the Central African Republic Dying

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