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Your guide to the 'fiscal cliff'
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It’s looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds.
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When revealing HIV status turns deadly
Recent results from the Women's Interagency HIV Study, the largest ongoing study about women living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, found that between 24 and 78 percent of women living with HIV/AIDS report a history of domestic violence.
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'Immigration reform' is just the beginning
Suddenly, everyone is courting “immigration reform.” The 2012 elections unveiled the changing face of America, and this new sensation is causing quite the stir. What a spectacle to see the starry-eyed suitors scramble, now that the long-scorned outcast is revealed to be the belle of the ball.
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Evidence of global warming grows
A lot of questions swirl around the subject of global warming. Here’s the main one: Is it really happening?
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Was a Texas student really expelled for refusing to wear a tracking chip?
The Texas school district that began requiring its students to wear radio-frequency identification (RIFD) tracking chips this year is now facing a fight in federal court.
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Why did your Logan County property tax go up?
When many of House District 31 residents, who also live in Logan County, received their new property tax assessments last April, they noticed a refreshing sight. Their property assessment stayed the same or may have even dropped.
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Obama fiscal cliff proposal is a non-starter
With less than a month to go before the fiscal cliff deadline, there is no time for political posturing or rigid demands. Yet President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff negotiations is so extreme and irresponsible that it has significantly undermined the process before discussions have even gotten off the ground.
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Author outlines failure of War on Drugs
Michelle Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University who has recently written a book titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” In that work she argues that the national “War on Drugs” has resulted in many African American and Latino men being subject to discrimination of the type that is similar to the unequal treatment African Americans received when legal segregation was the law of the land in most of the states in the South.
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What's going on in the brain of a cheater?
America does love a good sex scandal, almost as much as the British do, and the Petraeus, um, affair has been an especially juicy one. It's been so complicated, in that reality-show kind of way, that we need charts depicting who's connected to whom.
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Why birth control is still a big idea
I spent most of my time this year advocating for better access to family planning around the world. Early on, I told everybody who would listen that I wanted to help put contraceptives back on top of the global health and development agenda. Visiting women in developing countries, however, I realized that this framing didn't quite capture my message.
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Your guide to the 'fiscal cliff'
