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An estimated 500 lives have been saved since March in a peace process launched by imprisoned Salvadoran gang members.

Legislators who are leaving the corporate front group ALEC deserve applause.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

Gulf residents and cleanup workers continue to suffer serious health problems from the 2010 disaster, but the oil giant is not being held to account.

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

The US policy of criminalizing undocumented immigrants has led innocent deportees to be jailed and maligned in their home countries.

There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.

Should states or the rubber-stamp NRC decide whether nuclear plants continue to operate?

COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in the land of the dependent.

If you live just about anywhere in the American West, you or your children and grandchildren could soon enough be facing the Age of Thirst.