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What makes this case exceptional is neither race nor the politics of self-defense alone but the total failure to investigate it for so long.

If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, its message to the country, including the millions of people dying needless deaths, will be, “Let them eat broccoli.”

With the 2012 elections projected to be the priciest ever, we must rein in the billions of influence-peddling dollars flowing toward Washington.

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

What the Occupy movement could do for poor people—and vice versa.

COLLEGE FINALIST: The inability for people to live in the present may become increasingly dangerous as it continues to become more socially acceptable.

How corruption in the US puts everyday corruption in Africa to shame.

The nation’s largest banks are methodically harvesting the last possible pound of flesh from millions of homeowners. We should put a stop to it.

How can the Occupy Wall Street movement be sustained while retaining the democratic impulse that inspired it in the first place?

A new anti-immigrant law breeds fear and hostility, turning immigrants into scapegoats for the economic crisis.