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What happens when individuals each seek to exploit a shared resource without rules that protect the common good? Another story of markets being irrational. 

Morgan Neville's new movie Won't You Be My Neighbor? documents the unlikely stardom of Fred Rogers and his long-running children's show. In theaters now.

In a “Beat” special report, Ari Melber examines Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos’s track record of rolling back years of policy in ways that affect millions of students, including ending programs that support diversity in schools

Acclaimed writer and activist Noam Chomsky delivered the keynote address to a meeting titled Two Minutes to Midnight: How Do We Move from Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear Abolition? Co-organized by the International Peace Bureau and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump might both be from New York City, but she doesn't think he knows to deal with a girl from the Bronx.

In his introduction to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children’s story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is it possible that one of America’s favorite children’s stories is also a subversive parable?

And here’s to you Mr Forty-five.
You're obsessed with pardons, wonder why.
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Sarah Stillman reports on people who fled their home countries fearing for their lives, and the tragic consequences when they were sent back.

The First Lady went to the border, but she did not accomplish as much as that little girl standing up to Trump on the cover of Time Magazine or as much as Jenny Lisette Flores.