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Captain America sequel hits all the right buttons
April 8, 2014Weaved throughout the storyline are critiques of NSA surveillance and data-mining, the assassination of U.S. citizens without due process, and drone strikes.
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Today in Eco-history: Coal mine disaster kills 128
April 8, 2014The mine was operated mostly by African American prisoners who, under Alabama's onvict lease system, had been "leased" to the mine owners. Regardless of how minor their crimes were, all of them rdied in the disaster.
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Ohio, the other border
April 8, 2014Every Tuesday night in Painesville, Ohio, immigrants with a common denominator meet at a converted church: they are protagonists or collateral damage in the government's deportation machine.
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“Floyd Collins”: heaps of social commentary on musical stage
April 8, 2014One day in late January 1925, while searching out a new entrance to the underground,Floyd Collins fell into a narrow crawlway, got trapped there, and ultimately died of starvation and exposure on Friday, February 13.
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President Obama orders stronger federal equal pay rules
April 8, 2014The president signed the order in a dramatic White House ceremony as Lilly Ledbetter stood beside him; it marked Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how long a woman must work into 2014 to earn...
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