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Occupy the DOE march

The growing movement against education reform is challenging a well-messaged behemoth funded by billionaires and sanctioned by both political parties.

GM

If the majority of American workers were producing more without earning more, who was going to buy all the stuff?

Union City

With a well-marked pathway from preschool through high school, the dense New Jersey city is a model educator for newcomers—and America at large.

Walmart

The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.

His next appointee for FCC chair could determine whether robber barons consolidate their domination of the public discourse.

Proposition 8 opponents

Gay rights advocates were hoping that the Court would issue a broad ruling, but the justices seem most concerned with issues of standing.

Comcast Center

In her book Captive Audience, Susan Crawford shows how media giants exert a stranglehold over consumers and government.
 

An unreliable anthropologist of traditional societies is a no less dubious diagnostician of the contemporary world.

survivalism

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

David Stockman

 Reagan's former budget director's outrage over crony capitalism and bank bailouts is right on, but the pundits don't like it.

Blogs

In an age of political discourse confined to partisan squabbling, social justice movements and ideas demand attention.

May 22, 2013

Susan B. Anthony fought her whole life for women’s rights. Now a group using her name wants to win elections to roll them back.

May 22, 2013

After three trials, Memphis prisoner Timothy McKinney won his freedom by pleading guilty to a crime he never did. 

May 22, 2013

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
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