Category: Environment
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room. #Trump#Nukes#Politics#War Brazilian court freezes former…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
President Trump Inside and Outside the Lines at the U.N. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission,” he declared Tuesday, very deliberately from the rostrum of the General Assembly, about the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. North Korea one-upped Mr. Trump on his reference to a 1970s Elton John lyric by labeling the president the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones “People don’t survive 20 years of incarceration with any kind of grace unless they have the discipline to do their reading and writing in the chaos of that place,” Ms. Jones said. “Forget Harvard. I’ve already graduated from the toughest school there is.” #Women#Massincarceration#Havard#Prison…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Aaron Mair
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to environmentalist, activist, Navy veteran, and the former…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
For DACA Recipients, Losing Protection and Work Permits Is Just the Start Ms. Perez, the law student, has not given up her dreams of becoming a lawyer, and still thinks of her loan obligations from the perspective of someone who was months away from joining the bar. Asked to entertain the possibility that she could…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
CAN JAMES MATTIS STOP TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER BAN IN THE MILITARY? Regardless of the study’s finding, as of March 23, 2018, Trump’s order will roll back President Barack Obama’s June 2016 policy that allows transgendered troops to serve openly. All money going to fund sex reassignment surgery for service members will be stopped by that date,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Phoenix police fire tear gas at anti-Trump protesters Thousands in Phoenix decry president as he holds the first event since deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville. #TrumpRally#Phoenix#PoliceState#Politics Brazil scraps Amazon reserve to allow mining The government of Brazil has abolished a vast national reserve bigger than the size of Denmark to open the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
America Fixates On 500 Assholes Instead Of Healing Its Own Institutional Racism “The excuses are endless as to why the possibility of slavery reparations shouldn’t even be subject to mainstream debate, let alone actually tried. As soon as you suggest that liberals put their money where their mouth is because screaming at Nazis every once…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Sherman Alexie
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to author, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie.…
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Am I a Gentrifier?
gen·tri·fi·ca·tion noun the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite. I love my hometown of Chicago. For all its faults, it’s the city that raised and educated me, both in the classroom and on…
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