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Author Ann Jones spent a year closely following American soldiers from the battlefield all the way back home.

Most higher education instructors these days are not comfortably tenured professors—they’re contingent workers, struggling to make it on a patchwork of short-term contracts at discounted wages. That’s one reason for Campus Equity Week (October 28-November 2), established in 2001 to draw attention to the lack of equity for non-tenure-track faculty in the higher education workplace.

Could a negotiated settlement between the United States and Iran could trigger yet another war in the Middle East? Two views.

The truth is that many good ideas for tackling New York's near-record inequality and promoting opportunity are sitting on the drawing board. All that's been missing is a mayor interested in such ideas.

Many of us here in the U.S. had entertained the notion that whatever disappointments await us after the election of the U.S. President Barak Obama, at least the reactionary U.S. policy toward Cuba might change

Tragically it is not the kind of character valued in the NFL, and that’s the heart of the damn problem.

"...to stand the test of time and to keep enchanting the world."

Although Twitter’s founders, investors and employees deserve to be rewarded for their ingenuity and hard work, the company’s public offering provides an opportunity to take stock of the growing disparities and misplaced priorities in the home of the nation’s celebrated technology industry.

Spying on Ban Ki-moon, New York election, seniors, Detroit, and food stamps

Brains of babies who heard melody before birth react more strongly to tune after birth and at four months, scientists say