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A short walk from the University of Pennsylvania, on a block of Victorian brownstones once condemned to the wrecking ball, resides one of the East Coast's great salons for the liberal intelligentsia. A...
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Deep in Heart of Texas, Voters Sour on Hard-Liners
Until recently, few people in Houston would have called Martha Wong conservative. She was the first Asian American elected to the city council in this blue-collar town and was a champion of immigrant...
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Your Water Footprint: It's Not Just How Much Water You Use, But What Products...
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Which Dangerous Toxins Are in Your Marijuana?
In 2004, California organic farm inspector Chris Van Hook submitted an unusual request to the US Department of Agriculture: He wanted permission to certify a medical marijuana farm as organic. He’d...
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Weedmart: Meet the Entrepreneurs with Plans for Marijuana Superstores and...
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Rich Executives Spend Millions For Bodyguards To Guard Them From Populist Anger
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Inside the 1 Percent's Texas Enclave: One of the Richest, Whitest and...
At a strip mall clogged with Ferraris and fashion boutiques, Beretta Gallery salesman Chris Cope shows me a framed photo of one of his best clients, an oilman posing next to a bounty of elephant tusks....
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10 Most Outrageously Overpaid CEOs
In 2010, people cheered when Congress gave shareholders the right to vote on the pay of corporate CEOs. Too bad those nonbinding votes haven't embarrassed the greed out of the chief executives. In...
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As legalized pot spreads, states are dazed and confused about what to do with stoned drivers.
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Why American Milk Might Be Worse For You Than Milk in Other Parts of the World
Are you drinking the wrong milk?The following peice first appeared onMother Jones. For more great content,click here to subscribe. When my in-laws moved from India to the United States some 35 years...
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