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Texas grand jury clears Planned Parenthood, indicts accusers

January 26, 2016 By Larry Rubin

A grand jury cleared a Planned Parenthood clinic charged with profiting from the sale of fetal tissue, but it indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the two behind the charges.

A book of considerable consequence: “Chasing the Scream”

September 29, 2015 By Dale Greenfield

"Why did the drug war start and why does it continue and what happens if you choose a radically different policy?"

Booksellers and librarians file brief in new NSA spy case

September 15, 2015 By Chris Finan

Groups urge a federal court to limit the NSA's surveillance of international electronic communications, including those relating to the purchase and use of books.

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.

Today in civil rights history: James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss

August 18, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Twice denied admission, he filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging that the university had rejected him only because of his race.