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Teachers across the country face a systematic underfunding of public schools and a systematic devaluing of the teaching profession by leaders who say public education should be swept aside to make room for a system of private free-market education.

We saw an outpouring of generosity for the people most hurt by our oppressive immigration policy.

Israeli Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, announced a series of escalatory measures that could be described as a declaration of war against prisoners.

Just as we are witnessing a rising movement for a visionary Green New Deal, so, too, the time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war...

A teacher walkout would cast the strike as a challenge to the creeping absorption of public schools by charter management organizations.

Meat grown in vats, grown from the cells of animals, may be the next course on the menu.

The social cohesion for a general strike supporting federal workers is part of America’s past, how about now?

The government shutdown dragged on for a 22nd day on Saturday, making it the longest in American history. On Friday, 800,000 federal employees went without their paychecks.

In the new Netflix show, couples learn how to tackle household tasks by 'tidying' together, a process that reveals just how gendered our domestic expectations are.

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