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From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

It took pressure from progressives to get a partly decent mortgage fraud settlement. They can’t take their eyes off the prize now.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

A bowlful of vinegar.

Students miss 50 million hours of school each year because of dental problems. A hearing Wednesday confronts the crisis.

Washington has become the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to wed. But the National Organization for Marriage will fight the new law.

Naomi Klein talks to an OWS organizer about using Occupy as a moment to dream big.

Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

The newest UN agency, once hailed as the best hope for action on women’s rights, fell short of money and power this year.

A case being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.