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As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return?

The crisis of higher education is about more than a crisis of funding and an assault on dissent; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics.

The New Industrial Organization made it OK to tell stories rather than prove theorems.

The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal of Tarek Mehanna marks another step in the US government's history of attempts to curtail free speech rights.

Kaci Hickox's quarantine is but one example of a nation that has entirely surrendered to its fears, both real and imagined.

“I don't think I'm particularly bothered by the fact that death is inevitable. I'm not embracing death, but I'm not afraid of it.”

Polls show the majority of Americans think that Congress should debate and vote to use military force.

Greed should be tightly regulated and controlled - it should be seen as the mental illness and social illness that it is.

Colorado and Oregon could soon become the first states in the nation to pass ballot initiatives mandating the labeling of food products containing GMOs.

The World Health Organization says nearly 5,000 people have now died from Ebola out of 10,000 known cases.