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We can get rid of the “spoiler” effect and make our elections more democratic. In fact, it’s already happening in states across the country.

Democrats running for president are distancing themselves from a charter school movement that once held powerful sway in the party.

A man with little talent squats in the White House, so it’s like balm to see a female sports star with real ability who’s unafraid to brag about it

The population in Iran is very pro- American. They make a clear distinction between the American people and the American government.

Here is a book that many will find helpful in trying to understand, and explain, the various ways that bias works in contemporary society.

Puerto Rico * Greece * France * Feminists on the Frontlines * Israel * Liberia * China

While teachers led their classrooms, a judge in a Los Angeles courtroom said that for students to win, teachers have to lose. If we want every child to have a chance to thrive, we must retain and support a stable teaching force-especially in high-poverty schools. By attacking the rules that protect and support teachers, the "Vergara "decision destabilizes public education.

On CTV's Question Period yesterday, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, said, "We fully expected the Harper government to make every effort to ram this project through. But…there's enormous solidarity here in British Columbia between First Nations people, British Columbians, Canadians, and we'll do what's necessary and whatever it takes to stop this project."

Two middle-aged men, former residents of Favelo do Metro, sat around a plastic table between the sidewalk and a demolished home. We asked them why the city would hastily evict this community, only to leave wreckage behind: “They didn’t give us a reason why we had to leave. They just came, pushed us out, and knocked the buildings down. Brazil spends and spends on ‘the future.’ Meanwhile, there’s nothing for the people of today.”

What were the class forces behind the overthrow of the Yanukovich regime, the installing of a new regime in Kiev, and the rise of the anti-Maidan and of the movement in the south-east?