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"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command in Omaha to bring us the untold stories--based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents--of how America's presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the...
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Immigration laws are designed to manage immigrant populations, reassert a nation s boundaries, and help define what it means to be a citizen of a given country and all of this is meant to be carried out humanely and without discrimination. But some argue that these protections are not enough to guarantee the welfare and human rights of immigrants who enter the country illegally. Those rights, and whether they are being violated, are among the topics...
77) Pollution
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This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether air pollution is a serious problem, whether pharmaceuticals are poisoning America's drinking water, and whether biofuels have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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In 2011, President Obama tested the limits of the executive branch's authority when he ordered a drone strike on Anwar al-Awlaki, an accused terrorist born in New Mexico and living in Yemen. Does the president have constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces to target and kill U.S. citizens abroad, or do such actions violate the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution?
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"The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most...