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Courts block some voter suppression laws
August 2, 2016Right wing efforts to suppress the voting rights of minority groups have hit roadblocks in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, North Dakota and Kansas, but the fight is far from over.
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New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
August 1, 2016Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
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“Jason Bourne” film: Don’t trust the CIA
August 1, 2016What's arguably most interesting about Jason Bourne is its up-to-the-minute topicality, ripping those proverbial headlines right off the front pages.
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Striking Walmart workers in China contact U.S. Walmart activists
July 29, 2016"We are going to stand our ground," Zhang Liya, a founding member of the workers' network, told the Chinese labor paper.
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Blinded by the bright lights of Hollywood and “Café Society”
July 29, 2016How Woody Allen keeps 'em coming on such a high level of interest is a phenomenon of continued creative juices still flowing in the senior decades.
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