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The Senate has finally passed its version of financial reform. Big street protests and voter outrage helped push the bill.

Massive layoffs, reductions in class offerings and downsizing of graduate programs spurred protests at dozens of universities on March 4. What's next for the student movement?

Federal and state proposals to reduce unemployment benefits or make them harder to obtain place millions of unemployed people at risk of falling into poverty.

The Washington Post spins myths about the poor, Congressional battles impact the poor, and Mitt Romney doesn’t give a damn about the poor.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is positioning himself as the next Reagan by making union-busting a Republican sacrament. Conservatives are eating it up. But will a recall derail him?

House Budget Committee chair uses his CPAC speech to hint about an alternative Republican presidential prospect like, er, Paul Ryan.

With Obama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the prison becomes a permanent fixture.

That's what the Obama administration is arguing for, in a crucial case now before the Supreme Court.