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Yascha Mounk argues that democracy and liberalism are not synonymous and counsels Americans to look to the examples of Hungary, India and Turkey.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, powerful Black women writers have created a ripple effect, inspiring future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives.

Teachers' unions say that charter schools, freed from many of the rules that govern traditional public schools, will divert funding from those schools while being free to pay teachers less, eliminate benefits, and kick out under-performing students.

History doesn't repeat itself, but in our dispute over immigrants in the country illegally and our predecessors' dispute over fugitive slaves, it takes no leap of logic or imagination to find the rhymes.

The Trump administration is intensifying its regime change efforts to potentially include torpedoing Venezuela's presidential election.

Stagnant wages, slow growth and high unemployment delivered the election’s populist uprising

West Virginia shows that we can fight back and win. We talk to two teachers to assess the tentative settlement and what comes next.

FCC snafu; Net fight goes on; Targeting telecoms; Who uses what; Dog bites man; Great firewall

Professor responsible for concept spotlighted in McDormand’s acceptance speech tells the Guardian how it can boost diversity.

We must get the language right. In reality, this was a strike and movement organized outside the union apparatus. This strike took shape as it did because the existing unions had neither the credibility nor legal authority to represent the workers.  West Virginia teachers and school workers have no collective bargaining, nor the right to strike.