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"We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary—including suspending the filibuster—in order to pass national voting and election administration standards."

What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools.

This latest episode is evidence that when athletes such as Ms. Osaka are told to refrain from commenting on racism or politics and instead to shut up and play, it has always included an unsaid caveat: “unless we stand to profit off your voice."

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

A continent in upheaval

Corporations like Amazon need to pay their fair share so we can address decades of delayed essential maintenance and upgrades to provide all Minnesotans with safe roads and bridges, affordable housing and functional school buildings.

The Knick joins HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a show that seems juiced by the wider range of plotlines and stories allowed by diversifying the cast.

Coprocessors and a neural network supercomputer may follow.

There is no reason for the Fed should be acting to slow the economy at the slightest hint of more rapid wage growth.

American sports—structured and codified over a century ago as a leisure pastime created by men for male consumption—just got marginally better, and that is cause for celebration.