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#OscarsSoWhite goes viral as Academy Awards nominations are announced
January 15, 2016Activist communities on the Internet had prepared for it: as it turned out, the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was buzzing the morning of Jan. 14.
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Icy times and rays of hope in Germany
January 15, 2016The influx of immigrants and asylum-seekers--over a million in 2015--has split Germany into two nearly equal halves.
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Reading the backstory on Bernie: “Outsider in the White House”
January 15, 2016Can a seasoned Independent who calls himself a "democratic socialist" get elected to the White House in 2016?
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How the Oscars began as a tool for union-avoidance
January 15, 2016Everyone's heard of the Academy Awards, but few know the anti-union origins of its sponsor.
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New bombings raise tensions, repression in Turkey
January 15, 2016A suicide bombing, evidently carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, killed ten German tourists in a historic square in downtown Istanbul, Turkey.
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