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Project Censored: World's richest one percent continue to become wealthier

Each year, Project Censored compiles its annual list of censored stories in an effort to fight against fake news. This story is an excerpt from the organization's latest book, Censored 2019: Fighting...

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Project Censored: Congress passes intrusive data sharing law under cover of...

Each year, Project Censored compiles its annual list of censored stories in an effort to fight against fake news.…

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Project Censored: Indigenous communities around world helping to win legal...

Each year, Project Censored compiles its annual list of censored stories in an effort to fight against fake news.…

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Project Censored: FBI racially profiling 'black identity extremists'

Each year, Project Censored compiles its annual list of censored stories in an effort to fight against fake news.…

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Project Censored: Washington Post bans employees from using social media to...

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Outgoing Michigan GOP is attempting to strip power from incoming Dems

Michigan voters in November elected by solid margins a Democratic governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, all of whom take office in January. In a normal democracy, that would mean a...

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Michigan GOP wants to undo parts of voter-approved marijuana decriminalization

A new bill introduced by Michigan Senate Republicans on Thursday in lame duck would make it illegal to grow marijuana at home. The move comes after voters on Nov.  6 approved a ballot initiative by a...

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Michigan Republicans now trying to gut recently approved voting rights expansion

Michigan voters across both parties on Nov. 6 approved by a wide margin a citizen-led ballot initiative to make it easier to vote in Michigan. The Promote the Vote ballot proposal passed 67-33 percent...

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Project Censored: Global decline in rule of law as basic human rights diminish

Each year, Project Censored compiles its annual list of censored stories in an effort to fight against fake news. This story is an excerpt from the organization's latest book, Censored 2019: Fighting...

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Republicans working to eliminate half of Michigan's protected wetlands

A new bill introduced by Senate Republicans would eliminate protected status for about 500,000 acres of Michigan wetlands, thus making them available for developers.…

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Weaning ourselves from clickbait news

The American news diet is filled with the real and the absurd, challenging the ability of everyday Americans’ to filter out “Fake News.” The regular feces throwing monkey show that is the Trump...

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Detroit named sixth least safe U.S. city, according to report

Every once in a while a report comes through that reminds Detroit's much-ballyhooed comeback still has a long way to go. One recent study has named Detroit among the least safe cities in the country.…

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Michigan may vote on paid sick time in 2020 after GOP tries to gut new law

Michigan voters may consider mandated paid sick time in 2020 now that a group of citizens is pushing back against a Republican attempt to gut a citizen-initiated paid sick time law. Last week, the...

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Millennials in Detroit are more likely to live with their parents

Among millennial stereotypes, living with their parents is right up there with avocado toast. Across the country, one-third of millennials are cutting costs by living with their parents, and...

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Rashida Tlaib will lead West Bank delegation, stand up to Israel

There aren't many lobbies that push around American lawmakers quite like that working on behalf of Israel. And even though there's waning public American support for the U.S.'s strongest Middle East...

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Michigan House Republicans vote to gut $12 per hour minimum wage, paid sick time

The Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday evening voted to gut Michigan's recently approved $12 per hour minimum wage and paid sick time laws. That comes after the...

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Can our institutions keep the Trump malignancy in check?

For a fleeting optimistic moment last Thursday, it looked like the institutions of the U.S. government might actually be up to the task of keeping Donald Trump's menace in check. It was a small...

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Pot is legal in Michigan this week, but there's nowhere to buy it

There is a lot of confusion right now regarding the legal aspects of marijuana. Let's take a look at what is actually going on.…

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I'm a 59-year-old man in good health — what can I do to get to a point where...

I'm a 59-year-old man in good health. For basically my whole adult life, I've had this problem during intercourse with a woman of (1) being very quick to come and (2) having a too intense "cringey"...

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Long decried by LGBTQ activists as pseudoscience, the scars of conversion...

The plan, early on, was to hide the letters in the church.…

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