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Obama revived Pell grants for prisoners, but the program faces a cloudy future.

Strikes can improve wages and working conditions, but history shows that more formal channels of negotiation are required to resolve the contradictions between society's reliance on public employees and its failure to value their labor.

For educators in Oklahoma and other states, the strike demands go far beyond better pay. The strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America’s children: access to  effective teachers, high-quality learning materials, and modern facilities. 

Last month, voters and organizers in Chicago mobilized against Illinois’ rent-control ban — a first step in stemming the city’s affordable-housing crisis.

The roads protesters block for Stephon Clark were the front line of Sacramento's segregation wars.

"No Turning Back" tells the stories of ordinary people caught in a cataclysm. A review of the book by journalist Rania Abouzeid.

Had he lived, there is little doubt that King would have opposed the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, not only based on his principled commitment to nonviolence and against war, but because, like the Vietnam War, these wars have robbed our nation of essential human and economic resources, ...

Two takes on Sinclair and Cambridge Analytica; Liberal media blues x 2; Mega Media got algorhythm

Ready Player One takes gaming culture and represents it as male-dominated, elitist and not dissimilar to the ‘alt-right’

A wave of teacher-led actions around the country was kicked off when teachers in West Virginia emerged victorious from a nearly two-week strike earlier this month. Last week In Arizona, this week in Oklahoma and Kentucky. Other states may soon follow, including New Mexico and Alaska.