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The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject.

A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century.

The government insists that the oil giant should pay Ecuador reparations for thousands of oil spills in the Amazon rain forest.

Update about Chelsea Manning and one of her recent blogs.

Cuba has successfully held off the Zika epidemic and in the process all but eliminated Dengue fever and other mosquito-carried illnesses, Cuba state-run media has reported.

Taking over Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to blast Fox News, the former ‘Daily Show’ host was unapologetically partisan while also seeking to build bridges.

With 3,000 teachers gathered in Minneapolis for the American Federation of Teachers convention, the two Twin Cities teachers unions led a march to protest the recent police killing of an African American man, Philando Castile, at a traffic stop. Educators want to link their struggle for resources for public schools with the wider need for public investment in neighborhoods and cities, particularly for communities of color.

Why negotiating “great trade deals” is not the answer

With increasing Latino activism, once-Republican Arizona is becoming contested terrain, though registration still lags. Will this be the year?

Although it has been more than 60 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision establishing that separate schools for white students and black students are not equal, schools in the U.S. remain very economically and racially segregated.