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“The public health sector has been absent from this debate,” said Nadia Steinzor, a researcher on the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at the environmental nonprofit, Earthworks. The science is far from settled. However, waiting for additional science to clarify those uncertainties before adopting more serious safeguards is misguided and dangerous. As a result, a number of researchers and local activists have been pushing for more aggressive oversight immediately.

Edna Pardo tireless campaigner on the inequities in Chicago schools, and for fairness in Illinois school finance and the Illinois tax system, and longtime leader of the League of Women Voters of Chicago

Republicans voted against his approval as part of a broader anti-civil rights agenda, but the 7 Democrats who joined them ought to be mortified by their own cowardice.

The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict

Meanwhile ... we have the specter this weekend of games that could be a train-wreck waiting to happen.

The new Cold War is upon us, and the American elites have no suggestions except to fight it again.

Millennials - are ‘digital natives’ - the only generation for which - the Internet, mobile technology and social media - are not something they’ve had to adapt to.

Russia, Ukraine, Paul Ryan, International Women's Day

The question before the Mayor is whether he will continue to fund a dual school system–one sector able to choose the students it wants–and the other sector serving all. He is trying to have it both ways, and it doesn’t work. He gave the charter lobby almost everything it wanted, and they still came after him as if he had given them nothing at all.

A radical new gene therapy for HIV using genetically modified cells mimics a rare but natural mutation that makes about 1% of the population resistant to the most common strains of HIV. Scientists were cautious not to draw strong conclusions from the small scale trial, which was designed to assess the safety of the therapy, but the early signs have raised their hopes.