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While the term divides us now, its history dates back to a time when mineworkers battled big coal – similar to teachers standing up for funding.

How a determined, bipartisan group of House and Senate staffers bucked congressional dysfunction and helped steer a landmark child welfare bill to final passage.

The Supreme Court will now decide whether, despite having aged nearly two centuries, the fateful words of the Stevens treaties from the 1850s still guarantee greater protection for tribal interests.

Math can be experienced as play much as music is—just what’s needed to enlarge the tribe of creative problem solvers in mathematics and other human disciplines

Even after extensive research has been done to show the gender pay gap exists (and persists), some skeptics refuse to believe the data. The infographic shows some of the most common criticisms of the gender wage gap and rebuts the “mansplainers” with data.

Using the “lily pad” strategy of “temporary” troop deployments, the US now has an “imperial-scale” military presence in Africa. With troops in more than 15 countries the US expansion has become self-justifying. The US must now stay in Africa to protect the interests of the US military there.

Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.

The Comintern was formed at a moment of revolutionary hope quite different from conditions today. Yet beginning in 1920, the Comintern tried to chart a course for revolutionary socialists in non-revolutionary times.

Moscow says Syria’s Soviet-era systems downed majority of US, UK and French missiles

Publicly owned internet networks are giving some rural regions an advantage over even the techiest big cities.