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Tag: children

Give children the vote, strengthen democracy

Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.

The inequality to be suffered by our children

Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.

On World Children’s Day, human rights group calls on Trump administration...

"All children deserve to be safe and protected, to live with their parents and their families, and to have their voices heard."

Teenagers in space

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

A child at world’s end

A mother thinks about the inheritance of children.

EPA is failing to protect school children from asbestos, internal watchdog...

"Without compliance inspections, the EPA cannot know whether schools pose an actual risk of asbestos exposure to students and personnel."

Study: Children have better nutrition when they live near forests

The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets. We show that forests cause these improvements."
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40 Yemeni children dead by US-made bomb? Outrage mounts over US...

The massacre of school boys between the ages of 6 and 11 was one of the worst attacks on children in the history of Yemen’s brutal war.

Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma...

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai...

“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”

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Elon Musk leaves Trump administration after gutting government services and dodging oversight

Musk’s chaotic 130-day tenure ends with lasting damage to federal agencies, threats to global aid, and deep conflicts of interest that watchdogs say will haunt public institutions for years.

The corrosive delusion of progress and the American dream

Most crises trace back to identifiable decisions and actions. Even the lead-up to the two world wars could have been disrupted numerous...

Death, sexual violence and human trafficking: Fallout from US aid withdrawal hits the world’s...

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.

How bad does it have to get before the DNC declares an emergency?

Right now, the Democratic Party appears to be stuck between Little Rock and a hard place.

Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate disaster case of...

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...