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Dan Rather | Injustice Shaped America's Birth. Unity Must Shape Its Future.





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Dan Rather | Injustice Shaped America's Birth. Unity Must Shape Its Future. 
Journalist Dan Rather attends the 'Truth' New York special screening at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema on October 23, 2015 in New York City. (photo: Mark Sagilocco/Getty Images)
Dan Rather, NBC
Rather writes: "In these uncertain days, as we work to confront the divisions within our diverse citizenry, it's worth reflecting anew on the cohesiveness of our national identity."
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Hillary Clinton: We Made a Person Who Admitted Sexual Assault President
Julia Manchester, The Hill
Manchester writes: "Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton discussed the culture of sexual assault following a myriad of new sexual harassment and assault allegations against Hollywood film producer and longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein."
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How the Drug Industry Derailed the DEA's War on Painkillers
Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation's streets."
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Rose McGowan Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her, Finally Throwing Away the NDA
Hunter Harris, Vulture
Harris writes: "After years of walking right up to the point of saying so, Rose McGowan has accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her. McGowan has talked in broad terms about the incident that happened between her and Weinstein in 1997, the details of which seemed blocked by a nondisclosure agreement."
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How Reuters Lost What Little Nerve It Had on Venezuela
Joe Emersberger, teleSUR
Emersberger writes: "Reuters used to occasionally push back - albeit timidly - against what other corporate outlets reported about Venezuela. Now it appears to have given up making any effort at all to break from the corporate pack."
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Independence Deadline Looms for Catalan's Leader
Creede Newton, Al Jazeera
Newton writes: "Catalan President Carles Puigdemont finds himself in a difficult position after the far-left Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) party delivered a letter demanding he declare independence by Monday."
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Record Amazon Fires Stun Scientists; Sign of Sick, Degraded Forests
Sue Branford and MaurĂ­cio Torres, Mongabay
Excerpt: "The fact that there has been a record number of fires this year doesn’t necessarily mean that there has been an increase in the area deforested. Instead, fires are often the result of a different phenomenon: forest degradation, which occurs when loggers move in to extract hard timber."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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