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Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.

Protests have brought rail travel in Canada to a standstill and introduced the fight against Coastal GasLink to the broader public.

The presidential candidate is a mirror image of Trump.

Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho on his film Parasite: " I tried to express a sentiment specific to Korean culture, [but] all the responses from different audiences were pretty much the same. Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism."

Corruption on top, rebellion on the bottom, and Bernie on the ballot

Drivers from 27 different countries launched the International Alliance of App Based Transport Workers (IAATW); a rare case where workers who fall outside the scope of traditional labor law and union structures have been able to come together.

“We’re not against teaching students career skills” that could eventually help them find employment, Flinn explained. “We’re against corporations writing the curriculum.”

...according to the Children's Defense Fund, kids now constitute one-third of the 38.1 million Americans classified as poor and 70% of them have at least one working parent -- so poverty can’t be chalked up to parental indolence.

A recent study associates sweet beverages, even 100% fruit juice and artificially sweetened beverages with a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes.

Iowa and New Hampshire were big wins for Bernie, but in neither state did his vote total reach 30%. Bernie will have to substantially expand his base if he is going to capture the nomination, not to mention succeed in beating Trump in November.