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The secret deal that sent eight asylum-seekers halfway around the world.

Stealing away democracy as midterms approach

“Hiding prisoners from the courts is unconstitutional,” said one expert.

Non-Discrimination Fills the Civil War Navy’s Recruitment Goal (1861), Are Storms of Moral Indignation a Thing of the Past? (1852), The World Gets Its First Billionaire (1916), Teaching Black Children to Accept a Debased Place Within Society (1760)

AutoZone workers went public in July with their drive to join United Auto Workers Local 259. Workers’ rights watchdog LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $210,696 to managers and lawyers to crush their effort.

The National Security Archive has published new FBI records on the “CHILBOM” investigation into the Washington, D.C., car bombing that Killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. FBI Agents interviewed Henry Kissinger on Pinochet’s Role.

The September 13 vote was a test not only of who will govern Sweden – at a national, regional and local level – but of whether the public services, democracy, and egalitarianism that Sweden once claimed to represent and be defended and restored.

Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) contends that the government allowed the meat and dairy industries to ghostwrite the Dietary Guidelines

A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.