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[Translate] DESIGN BOOM apr 08, discount 2015 roote angles two-storey family residence on an inclined plot in japan roote angles...

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The Five Worst Supreme Court J...

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The Five Worst Supreme Court Justices In American History, Ranked

[Translate] by Ian MillhiserPLANET FORWARD Today is the official release date for my book, Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of...

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Keep Your Eyes Wide Open: 6 Ou...

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Keep Your Eyes Wide Open: 6 Outrageous Ways Airlines Try to Yank Your Wallet

[Translate] Economy Sometimes your only choice is to go without or suck it up. By Sage McHugh / AlterNet These days, getting a good...

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Why the Contemporary Art World...

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Why the Contemporary Art World Is Insufferable, Corrupted by the Super-Rich

[Translate] I used to cover gallery openings, but those days are over. By Sola Agustsson / AlterNet   For the last few years,...

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Tom Steyer Launches Effort To ...

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[Translate] NextGen Climate’s chief strategist, Chris Lehane, said in a call with reporters that the group’s mission...

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Landmark Dutch Lawsuit Puts Go...

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Landmark Dutch Lawsuit Puts Governments Around the World on Notice

[Translate] HUFFINGTON POST Since the days of Watergate, the question “What did he know, and when did he know it?” has...

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ALEC is threatening to sue the...

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ALEC is threatening to sue the groups calling it out on its climate denial

[Translate] The free-market lobbying group says it accepts the scientific consensus on global warming. It’s lying. Lindsay...

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The incredible shrinking megac...

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The incredible shrinking megacity: How Los Angeles engineered a housing crisis

[Translate] SALON.COM Los Angeles used to be the promised land for America’s homeowners. Now it’s tearing at the seams...

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Preserving the Peace

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Preserving the Peace

[Translate] Metropolis Magazine With the help of local craftspeople, Sharon Davis designs a rural retreat in the Hudson Valley that...

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Western Canada May Lose 70 Per...

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Western Canada May Lose 70 Percent Of Its Glaciers By The End Of This Century

[Translate] by Natasha GeilingCLIMATE PROGRESS The Athabasca Glacier, North America’s most visited glacier, located in Alberta,...

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17 States Where You’re M...

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17 States Where You’re More Likely To Die From Guns Than Car Crashes

[Translate] Tea Party and the Right More evidence of America’s out-of-control gun culture. By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet In...

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Exposing the Meat IndustryR...

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Exposing the Meat Industry’s Major Role in Causing California’s Water Crisis

[Translate] Environment A documentary contends livestock is the leading cause of deforestation, hospital water consumption and...

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Anti-Abortion Group’s Effort T...

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Anti-Abortion Group’s Effort To Defund Family Planning Clinics Backfires Spectacularly

[Translate] by Tara Culp-Ressler  THINK PROGRESS Signs of support to counter the right-wing picketers outside the family planning...

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Finding Radical Alternatives i...

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Finding Radical Alternatives in Slums, Exurbs, and Enclaves

[Translate] Point of View  METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Joshua K. Leon Elemental’s Quinta Monroy houses in Chile have become a...

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California’s Drought in Perspe...

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California’s Drought in Perspective

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Scientists are calling the current wave of drought, try which began to spread across California,...

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Netanyahu Slips and Reveals th...

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Netanyahu Slips and Reveals the Real Reason He Opposes the Iran Deal

[Translate]   By Juan Cole   TRUTHDIG   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP / Ilia Yefimovich) This post originally...

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Noam Chomsky: Israel Is a Viol...

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Noam Chomsky: Israel Is a Violent State Acting in Direct Violation of International Law

[Translate] In a talk aired on C-SPAN in March, thumb the world-renowned linguist and political activist discusses his book of essays...

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Why Global Poverty Won’t Actua...

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Why Global Poverty Won’t Actually Be Eradicated in This Century, Despite What Leaders Say

[Translate] The sustainable development goals will aim to eradicate poverty by 2030 but our current economic model, built on GDP,...

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It’s Time for Architectu...

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It’s Time for Architecture to Celebrate Diversity

[Translate] Metropolis’s editor in chief looks forward to a more diverse architectural field. Susan S. Szenasy Courtesy...

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The Whoredom of the Left

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The Whoredom of the Left

[Translate] By Chris Hedges   A scene from the Artemis brothel in Berlin in 2009. (AP / Franka Bruns) VANCOUVER, stuff British...

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Alma-nac’s Slim House is...

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Alma-nac’s Slim House is a super-narrow London home filled with daylight

[Translate] ARCHITECTURE by Lidija Grozdanic, INHABITAT     London-based design studio alma-nac extended an existing house in...

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Seattle’s Emerging EcoDistrict...

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Seattle’s Emerging EcoDistrict

[Translate]  by The Dirt Contributor EcoDistrict planning and design can accelerate local efforts to improve sustainability....

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WATCH: John Oliver Employs Bri...

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WATCH: John Oliver Employs Brilliant Tactic to Get Edward Snowden to Explain Why NSA Surveillance Matters

[Translate] Civil Liberties The famous whistleblower confirms that the government is collecting ‘d*ck picks.’ By Janet...

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The Iran Nuclear Deal, by the ...

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The Iran Nuclear Deal, by the Numbers

[Translate] Assessing the impact of the accord in three charts Graham Allison   THE ATLANTIC Caren Firouz/ReutersTo assess the impact...

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Urban Software

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Urban Software

[Translate] Author and theoretician Keller Easterling discusses how architects and urbanists might hack the operating system of our...

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After Cesar Chavez: The fight ...

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After Cesar Chavez: The fight for farmworker rights isn’t over

[Translate] U.S. National Archives and Records Administration By Brentin Mock The irony of nonviolent resistance is that it needs...

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[Translate] wavebreakmedia / Shutterstock.com Wanna change an oil exec’s mind on climate? Here’s how By Felix Kramer GRIST An earlier...

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Congressional Budget Plans Get...

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Congressional Budget Plans Get Two-Thirds of Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes

[Translate]   By Richard Kogan and Isaac Shapiro, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | News Analysis House Speaker John Boehner...

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Army of God? 6 Modern-Day Chri...

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Army of God? 6 Modern-Day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About

[Translate] News & Politics Just because they don’t get as much coverage as ISIS or Boko Haram doesn’t mean that they don’t...

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5 Most Deranged Right-Wing Mom...

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5 Most Deranged Right-Wing Moments This Week: Conservative Heads Explode Over Indiana and Iran

[Translate] Tea Party and the Right Michele Bachmann takes crazy to a whole new level. By Janet Allon / AlterNet Photo Credit:...

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