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After the Parkland massacre, with an estimated 265 million private guns, high school teacher Belle Chesler takes us inside an all-American school-cum-shooting-gallery - what a grown-up thinks about the nature of American life while locked down.

The United States women’s soccer team has taken on leadership roles in their own sport while becoming advisors to female athletes around the world. Aly Raisman’s lawsuit against the US Olympic Committee is a call for justice and true accountability.

A year before #MeToo erupted in the United States, women in Argentina were fighting against an epidemic of violence against women in which, on average, one woman is killed every 30 hours.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, powerful Black women writers have created a ripple effect, inspiring future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives.

Her suit is a reminder that it’s getting harder for powerful men to pay for women’s silence.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people.

In 1946, Viola Desmond insisted on sitting in the whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater, and now she's being put on the $10 bill for her bravery.

After the nine-day strike, West Virginia teachers won a 5 percent pay increase.

FCC snafu; Net fight goes on; Targeting telecoms; Who uses what; Dog bites man; Great firewall

West Virginia shows that we can fight back and win. We talk to two teachers to assess the tentative settlement and what comes next.