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November 7, 2015

Keystone XL Victory !

May Boeve, 350.org Executive Director 350.org

Just a few years ago, insiders and experts wrote us off and assured the world Keystone XL would be built by the end of 2011. Together, ranchers, tribal nations and everyday people beat this project back, reminding the world that Big Oil isn't invincible.

November 7, 2015

California State University Faculty Authorize Strike

Alexei Koseff Sacramento Bee

More than 94 percent of voting members give union permission to call strike in salary dispute with university.

The Ferguson Effect: It's Hard Out There for a Cop

November 7, 2015

FBI Director James Comey attributes a spike in violent crime to the "Ferguson effect," believing that police are fearful that bystanders will film them.

The Mesa Verde Mystery

November 7, 2015

Seven centuries ago, an entire society performed one of the greatest vanishing acts in human history when they fled their homes in the American Southwest. Archaeologists are trying to work out why they left.

November 7, 2015

The Indonesian Massacre: What Did the U.S. Know?

Margaret Scott The New York Review of Books

President Obama welcomed Indonesian President Joko Widodo to the White House last week, 50 years after the U.S. backed military coup that resulted in the killings of hundreds of thousands of suspected Indonesian Communists and just weeks after the CIA’s declassification of intelligence documents offers an opportunity to revisit the U.S role in those murderous events. But neither president appears ready to probe further one of the worst massacres since World War II.