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When it comes to running Bank of America, shareholders don’t have much more influence than the demonstrators outside.

A diverse democracy requires us to be able to live near one another, to come together in public space and to engage across differences.

Twelve red states account for 70 percent of all state and local public sector jobs lost since 2010.

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Finding the right “frame” will not magically change people’s attitudes about government. We must speaks to--and act on--our common goals.

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Do justices feel shame?—the Met found wanting—can Congress feel our pain?—eyewitnesses: not 20/20—a reviewed author objects—Rainbow Rowell’s welfare essay
 

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

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”

How two wars in the Greater Middle East revealed the weakness of the global superpower.