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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face. It can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing …

While touted as a market-based solution to education, charter schools are often plagued by the problems of under-regulation and low accountability.

As it considers whether to back a controversial dam in Tajikistan, the World Bank needs to revisit its criteria for funding projects that displace people from their homes.

Political leaders of developing countries gathered in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Group of 77, the main umbrella organization …

A crew of nine marijuana legalization canvassers walked off their jobs and into the Portland office of the Industrial Workers of the World looking to form a union.

More than 30,000 members of the Mayagna indigenous community are in danger of disappearing, along with the rainforest which is their home in Nicaragua.

The world of international trade negotiators is an increasingly secret one, with even other agencies of national governments not fully aware of what is being offered by their negotiators …

Seattle's new minimum wage of $15 an hour - the highest in the nation - is the latest example of grassroots efforts to establish living wages at the local …

Author, critic and screenwriter Ruth Fowler advocates free education for all, a reimagined, less white feminism, and the dethronement of Creative Writing MFA programs.

Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.