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To preserve and modernize the USPS well into the twenty-first century, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Peter DeFazio have introduced the Postal Service Protection Act.

There’s nothing healthy about shaming people for their bodies.

MOOCs are the latest craze in higher education’s push to reinvent itself.

Cheney and Rove are “essentially invisible” at Bush’s museum. But they sure weren’t during his presidency.

New York Times

From climate change to financial meltdown, the worst of our journalism is becoming the norm. 

The big man—a cultural tycoon and a friend of the Fraternal Order of Police—just went big-bully on a widely acclaimed film about political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jahmal.

After Boston, are the Senate Judiciary Hearings on immigration actually helping us get closer to reform?

The conservative Koch brothers are aiming to use their vast wealth to buy a consortium of newspapers. Here’s why you should worry. 

On April 18, people converged in Nebraska to speak out about the Keystone XL Pipeline at the State Department's only public comment session.

Contrary to popular belief, the president has only increased the scope of our global program to detain and torture people.

The honor roll is an indefensible obstacle to student progress.

Anwar al-Awlaki

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

Violentacrez

Unmasking racists and trolls on the Internet may feel like justice, but it does not drive social progress.

Lemoore, California

Without its lifeline, a stream of federal aid, Lemoore is in crisis mode—and residents of all political stripes are united in outrage.

A homeless family

An already-bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

Syrian boy living in Mafraq, Jordan

After fleeing violence at home, Syrians struggle to eke out a new life in Jordan’s cities and towns.

The world’s largest sports network just hired a noted critic as its watchdog. What’s next for sports media?

Testimonies by Aaron Braun, Tiesha Cassel, Amber Marie Felton, Chinwe Okona.

Still from 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

Mira Nair's latest film includes a character who's a journalist and CIA agent. Is this responsible filmmaking?

West, TX

There ought to be a response to violence besides callous indifference and total social warfare.

Katrina vanden Heuvel on austerity’s flawed foundation, Dave Zirin on firing the Steubenville coach, Andrew Bard Epstein on direct action against drones, the editors on transparency and the Bradley Manning case

Guantánamo Bay detention center

That’s the unanimous conclusion of a nonpartisan task force. It should teach us not to overreact to the Boston bombings.

The Tsarnaev brothers

It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.