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Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?

Snyder v. United States could make it legal for public officials to accept rewards for their corrupt actions.

A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.

A growing movement of “uncommitted” Democratic voters are making it impossible for the Biden White House to remain complacent about Israel’s war on Gaza.

Moderate PAC -- funding Lee's opponent -- has been described as "an organization of centrist Democrats," but its only donation in the 2022 cycle came from a firm co-founded by Republican benefactor Jeffrey Yass—the richest man in Pennsylvania.

In her first book, the NPR political correspondent examines a growing movement away from the rightwing Christian church

One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

Hospital Workers Win (in 1969), Virginia Racists Split Hairs (1924), Anti-Racist Education Rules (1969), Protesters Beat the Rap (1969), German Troops in Rome (1944), The Fork Not Taken (1989), An Unemployed Army (1894), Transatlantic Slave Trade

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on "explicitness" before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn't comply.

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.