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A man with little talent squats in the White House, so it’s like balm to see a female sports star with real ability who’s unafraid to brag about it

Democrats running for president are distancing themselves from a charter school movement that once held powerful sway in the party.

We can get rid of the “spoiler” effect and make our elections more democratic. In fact, it’s already happening in states across the country.

Newly restored, Elaine May’s darkest comedy is one of the great underappreciated American movies of the 1970s.

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Amazon has to do more than pay a $15 minimum wage to keep workers happy.

Indeed, power is not vested in them (all powerful men) but in the individuals and institutions all around them. This makes it essential to look past individual perpetrators to the systems that allow them to commit crimes with impunity.

While these comments surely further fueled the vicious, racist right-wing attacks against AOC and her colleagues in “The Squad,” it would be a mistake to reduce them to their racism. For they also articulated a broader reactionary agenda.

Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, exploited the island's post-hurricane crisis to close hundreds of schools and privatize the education system. Now, thanks to a massive corruption scandal, she may be going to jail.

The institutions responsible for harming people operate across borders far more than most people realize, yet many groups are joining forces to gain strength.