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Yahoo isn’t buying the blogging service for its profitability. It’s buying it for the advertising possibilities.

Welcome home sign for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight

Whatever their intent, laws equating pregnancy termination with murder are used against pregnant women, not for them.

Chicago teachers

CORE’s victory is a boost to social movement unionism—and a model for other unions around the country.

New Orleans

It’s a starting point: not the tinder or the blaze but a match, a belief in possibility.

An adopted child

I’d like to believe my sons’ best life is in my home, and not with their first families. But Christians committed to justice need to remember we are not entitled to other people’s children.

Myriad genetic testing

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.

Journalist

The future of media must include all of us.

Shujaa Graham

“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Kirk Bloodsworth, who faced execution in Maryland, the latest state to outlaw capital punishment.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee moves the immigration bill to full debate—without LGBT inclusion.

May 22, 2013

SBA is the anti-choice movement’s latest ploy to convince American women that less rights mean progress.

May 22, 2013

The latest sports stadium swindle is going down in Chicago, and the anger is both palpable and widespread.

May 22, 2013

The hip-hop artist tackles the controversial NYPD policy.

May 21, 2013

Republicans may want to turn to an unlikely source for clues on how to sell conservatism to black voters. 

May 21, 2013

Journalism has a class and color crisis. How can it be solved?

May 21, 2013

Being malcontent never made anyone happy.

May 21, 2013

Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.

May 21, 2013

A major PBS funder almost scuttled a film that portrayed him in a negative light. 

May 20, 2013

Meanwhile, teachers and activists are on a three-day march to highlight the potentially explosive impact of the closings. 

May 20, 2013
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