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An elementary school teacher fights back against a regime's mandates in this small-scale, secretly shot documentary.

Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.

The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

“For a representative democracy like ours to work, citizens must have some confidence that, through... political engagement, they have a fighting chance to turn their priorities into government policy,” said an elections expert.

State and local government employees in Virginia are poised to gain the right to collectively bargain under a pending bill. But home care and campus workers aren't included.

“The cartels are fueled by the United States’ demand for drugs and armed with US weapons, and thanks to the United States, they are able to orchestrate enormous bloodshed and chaos,” said Mexico’s president.

In the world of Marxism, this debate about the origin of capitalism has gripped scholars who work in many languages.

The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

Sorghum making is one of the many things that kept communities connected in the rural South. Our way of working offers the gift of slowness in an age built on the presumptions of speed.

Moderate voters are not like the people who purport to speak for them. And that’s crucial for Democratic candidates and strategists, as well as journalists, to understand. They're not looking for a nominee with a Republican-lite platform.