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The U.S. Department of Education has been scammed for hundreds of millions of dollars by fraudulent or mismanaged charter schools.

State legislatures are escalating their assault on women's right to choose — and on the women who attempt to exercise it.

Peter Neil Carroll’s “Sanctuary” honors the work of Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental volunteer group of lifeguards who rescue refugees at sea.

Slavery lasted for nearly 250 years. Counting the nearly century-long Jim Crow segregation of African Americans, officially sanctioned racial oppression encompassed more than 80% of U.S. history.

Why the former vice president needs voters to believe America was great before Trump ruined it

The federal Works Progress Administration's version of “public art” was vastly different the the “public art” sponsored by Confederate apologists

It may be risky politically, but Congress has a responsibility to act

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The highly regarded scholar's latest work tackles the deep roots of white nationalism as it emerged from conflicts surrounding Reconstruction and the failure of post-Civil War governments to stamp down racism and secure genuine emancipation.

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