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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

The laws of physics work both forward and backward in time. So why does time seem to move in only one direction? One potential answer may also reveal the secrets of the universe’s missing mass.

“Some people feel like it’s not enough, but it’s symbolic,” said Armando Robles, one of the New Era worker-owners and a leader of the occupation and ensuing efforts. “It’s a huge victory.”

The bourgeoisie does not rule by force alone; it does so by inculcating its ideas and values—its ideology—into the population at large. It follows, then, as the GMB’s John Callow argues in his preface to Silvertown, that “history, like politics…is a fiercely contested ideological space.” Historians who claim to be impartial and “value-free” are not to be trusted—or they are simple.

Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And sometimes, dashcam systems didn’t have any microphones at all, DNAinfo Chicago has learned. Police officials last month blamed the absence of audio in 80 percent of dashcam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”