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Officials leak secrets to advance careers or justify wars and weapons programs, but Edward Snowden’s the criminal?

Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.

Thirty-seven years after Congress first ended Medicaid funding of abortion, a new coalition of abortion rights and reproductive justice groups is poised to fight back.

The Weekly Standard's assault on my article is a quintessential example of cold-war thinking and debased discourse.

Americans remain mostly blind to the abusive treatment of terror suspects on US soil.

Is AmeriCorps a lifeline for debt-burdened young Americans—or one more example of relentless government cost-cutting?

For half a century, the Institute for Policy Studies has been an invaluable font of progressive ideas and action. We look forward to the next half-century.

He’s saying the right things. Will the US Conference of Catholic Bishops listen?

He seems like a lovely, modest man, but there's no sign he will change the church’s stance on issues that matter to women.

As the wealth gap grows, so have the number of ways a woman can sell her body. What is the cost?