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As “now it can be told” theater, TimeLine’s Chicago premiere, the second coming of this angry work, works equally well as an exercise in conspiracy-theory paranoia, journalistic sleuthing at its most dangerous, and a cumulative plea for transparency in foreign policy, banking, and law enforcement (Edward Snowden anyone?).

Two thousand telecommunications workers walked off their jobs in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine on October 17 after FairPoint Communications imposed its final bargaining table proposal.

Does everyone deserve a second chance?

Open letter says claims made for brain games are not based on sound evidence and playing them may have the opposite effect

What will it take to reshape America’s police departments, and curtail the unprompted police killings that beset us still?

A new political action committee has formed to influence the outcome of Los Angeles school board races, filling a gap created when a group of civic leaders, which includes former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, decided to sit out next month's key upcoming election. The new organization, Great Public Schools Los Angeles Political Action Committee, joins other outside groups involved in the campaign to replace Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte, who died in December.

Detroit has suspended water shutoffs for 15 days, but it's a temporary reprieve.

Meet five women who are bearing the burden of conflict in Syria and persevering in spite of it.

Cattle need 28 times more land than other livestock, according to a new study.

Southern Democrats, meet your future: No more Republican Lite.