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An excerpt from Lani Guinier's introduction to “The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America.”

I'm basically an insurance broker, except I'm paid by the government instead of an insurance company. And I'm making a crappy non-profit wage.

Of course, you can count on hearing, any minute now, people claiming that the numbers are cooked.

Regardless of warming diplomatic relations, the US government's true aim is to bring Cuba back into the capitalist fold.

An odd collaboration between Ayn Rand disciples and Christian rightists seems to signal further cohesion on the Tea Party right.

Will the United States do what it demands of other nations, and hold its own government officials accountable for torture?

The prospect of food sovereignty taking root in the world is awesome, not because peasants and small farmers are overthrowing their enemies, but because they are taking decisive steps …

This is where we are as a society - a black woman dying of a terrible illness is faced with death on a cold sidewalk, or death in a …

Would people be as willing to call the Paris attack ‘terrorism’ if the suspects involved were white or members of a right-wing hate group?

The problem with Abbas, however, is bigger than Abbas himself. The ailment lies in the very political culture and class that sustained and benefited from political corruption for over …