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Nick Coles previews the scholarly and creative works that were recognized in this year's Working-Class Studies Association awards.

For all the excitement about left-leaning demographics, a real majority party needs better numbers among blue-collar whites.

Documents presented to the Fund's board last Friday will reveal that the Washington-based organisation underestimated the damage austerity would cause to the eurozone country, which has required two bailouts in the past three years.

Colorado has crippled its own ability to tax. And now some citizens say that's depriving them of their right to a republican government.

More than any of the other civil rights widows, Myrlie Evers showed America her rage. She let the nation see her unfiltered emotion when two all-white juries refused to convict Medgar’s killer, during a time when black anger was not an acceptable display of emotion. She wrote a book and began it with this line: “Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.”

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