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America's student loan debt crisis is a massive, devastating, trillion dollar morally criminal conspiracy, committed by Wall Street banksters, libertarian billionaires and Reaganomics devotees.

To puncture official indifference, Latin American indigenous women are staging a tribunal on the sidelines of a U.N. permanent forum "to push back the invisibility" about what they suffer. "The justice system really doesn't work for us," says one.

Despite occasional media laments that "protest music is dead," a new generation of performers has been revitalizing music's links to movements, often self-consciously modeled on the folk singers of the past.

Electric chair, firing squad and gas chambers are among execution alternatives amid US lethal injection controversy.

There is a climate of frustration and anger among workers that is very different from the initial enthusiastic reception of the 2009 announcement that Brazil would host the World Cup.

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders promised supporters gathered with him in a café in The Hague that there would be "Fewer, fewer, fewer" Moroccans in the Netherlands. This time, Wilders seems to have gone to far, provoking demonstrations, criminal complaints, editorial condemnations and desertions from his party.

Juvenile courts across the country deny young defendants the constitutional right to an attorney

The former Treasury Secretary’s new book shows misunderstanding of the Great Recession’s causes

“Shuttering our schools was touted as a hard and difficult choice by the mayor and the Board [of Education], but this was the easy, draconian choice,” said CTU President Karen GJ Lewis. “Parents, teachers, and the public demanded resources and supports for these education communities. Sadly, by making promises that remain unfulfilled, these schools and the students they serve have been dealt yet another blow—from failed policy to broken promises.”

Nurses at San Francisco General attempt to meet with Mayor Ed Lee about staffing shortages in the busiest emergency room in the city. Nurses have filed 300 official reports in the last two years, detailing unsafe conditions, but there has been no response from hospital management.