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Children and workers are seen at the Tornillo tent camp which houses immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Undocumented kids have no right to life

Celia Viggo Wexler, DonkeyHotey - WhoWhatWhy

Many who would go to extremes to protect “preborn” babies, are less eager to protect babies after they are born

Los Angeles Police SWAT officers, and Los Angeles firemen wearing bulletproof helmets, evacuate a child, after a gunman barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles, July 21, 2018. (AP/Damian Dovargane)

A Trader Joe's hostage, one year later

Lynnie Westafer

I've learned that trauma is humbling, and it can't be overpowered by will alone

David Koch (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

How corporations keep workers wages down

Arthur O'Connor - WhoWhatWhy

With record-low unemployment rates and with workers in high demand, why haven’t wages increased commensurately?

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FILE - This Jan. 30, 2012 file photo shows the sign for the ExxonMobil Torerance Refinery in Torrance, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (AP)

ExxonMobil investigation spurs action

Patti Lynn - Truthout

Activists have been rallying and promoting the hashtag #ExxonKnew for years

"Blown Away" (Netflix)

Summer TV: It's even hotter inside

Melanie McFarland

Go make something, you lazies. Be inspired by "Forged in Fire" and "Blown Away," Netflix's glassblowing competition

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Viewers are switching off Netflix

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain

Company says its shows weren't as popular as hoped

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Charter school deception

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute

Nationwide, the litany of charter school outrages continues to grow. Why won't the industry reform?

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America: Melting pot or a salad bowl?

Simon Greer - Independent Media Institute

We got four couples of different backgrounds in a room to ask if they valued the greatest need or the closest kin.

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A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children wait to be processed as they are held in a wire mesh enclosure at the Angel Island Internment barracks in San Francisco Bay in the late 1920s. (AP Photo)

Whose country is this?

Kevin Jennings, Buck Gee, Norman Mineta

As a nation shaped by immigration, our brightest hope for the future lies in the lessons from the past

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Rising temperature, worker safety needed

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News

With rising temperatures all throughout the United States, preventive measures are needed to protect workers.

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Xi Jinping; Donald Trump (Getty/Thomas Peter)

How Congress lost power over trade deals

William Hauk - The Conversation

Congress was once the seat of all power on U.S. trade policy.

Members of Congress are questionned by journalists in the corridors of Caongress at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2017. (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Politicians don't care what you think

Matthew Rozsa

Political scientist Ethan Porter says state legislators are driven by party loyalty, don't care what public thinks

A leatherback turtle (Mark Dodd / Wildlife Resources Division, State of Georgia)

Trump reopens "longline" fishing

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

Move will further endanger the rapidly declining population of giant leatherback sea turtles.

Lashana Lynch; Halle Bailey; Gina Torres in "Pearson;" Ilhan Omar; Beyonce; Zendaya (Getty/USA/Salon)

The symbolic power of "Pearson"

Melanie McFarland

In debuting the same week that powerful women of color came attack, Gina Torres' "Suits" spinoff is right on time

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Donald Trump; Calvin Coolidge (AP/Salon)

Trump borrows from Coolidge's playbook

Edward Goldberg

In the 1920s the US was awash in anti-immigrant rhetoric stemming from white fear about power but also technology

July 27, 2006 arrest file photo made available by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, in Florida, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (AP/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

DC on edge over Epstein case

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

“In due time the names are going to start coming out.”

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Erdoğan’s control over Turkey is ending

Gary M. Grossman - The Conversation

Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, on June 27.

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump bets 2020 on Racist-in-Chief

Lucian K. Truscott IV

His “send her back” rally in North Carolina rivaled Hitler’s rallies in Nuremberg

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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

A history of immigrant treatment

Anthony W. Fontes - The Conversation

In the midst of present-day immigration issues, it is important to examine the long history of US's harsh treatment

FILE - In this March 5, 2014 file photo, George Norcross, addresses a gathering at a groundbreaking ceremony in Camden, N.J., for a new kind of school that Norcross' family foundation will help fund. Camden, one of the country's most impoverished cities, will get some time in the Democratic convention spotlight Thursday, July 28, 2016, with some help from Lady Gaga. Norcross and the Senate Majority PAC are hosting the invite-only "Camden Rising" event Thursday afternoon with invites going out to all of the convention's delegates, hours before Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party's nomination. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

The N.J. Dem boss who praised Trump

Bob Hennelly

George Norcross III, an unelected New Jersey Democratic boss, represents many of his party's fundamental flaws

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Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president and architect of immigration policy (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Stephen Miller wants zero refugees

Igor Derysh

Reports suggest Trump administration may cut refugee admissions by 90%. That's not enough for Stephen Miller

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