The Troubling Emergency Response Failures After Hurricane Harvey
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Defending the Environment May Get You Killed
Environmental defenders are being threatened and killed at increasingly high rates.
Arizona Voting Problems Erode Public Trust
Thousands of Arizona primary voters were unable to vote when polls opened.
In Good or Bad Times, American Paychecks Don’t Grow
Even though the economy appears to be strong and growing stronger by many measures, for workers in “production and nonsupervisory” positions, their paychecks have fallen.
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