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Relying on state violence to curb domestic violence only ends up harming the most marginalized women.

Reporters and editors at the commonly owned New York news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist are now represented by the Writers Guild of America East.

A group of eminent psychiatrists and mental health professionals have published their assessment of President Donald Trump's fitness for office.

Nurses at San Francisco General attempt to meet with Mayor Ed Lee about staffing shortages in the busiest emergency room in the city. Nurses have filed 300 official reports in the last two years, detailing unsafe conditions, but there has been no response from hospital management.

“Shuttering our schools was touted as a hard and difficult choice by the mayor and the Board [of Education], but this was the easy, draconian choice,” said CTU President Karen GJ Lewis. “Parents, teachers, and the public demanded resources and supports for these education communities. Sadly, by making promises that remain unfulfilled, these schools and the students they serve have been dealt yet another blow—from failed policy to broken promises.”

The former Treasury Secretary’s new book shows misunderstanding of the Great Recession’s causes

Juvenile courts across the country deny young defendants the constitutional right to an attorney

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders promised supporters gathered with him in a café in The Hague that there would be "Fewer, fewer, fewer" Moroccans in the Netherlands. This time, Wilders seems to have gone to far, provoking demonstrations, criminal complaints, editorial condemnations and desertions from his party.