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After a five-week recess, lawmakers return to work on September 8. Congress has a lot on its plate and only a dozen legislative days before the November elections to …

Ferguson area police shot 16 people before shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown. In most cases in which race was known, the victim was black.

Aviva Chomsky explains how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor has increasingly shaped immigration law and lives.

In “Mass Incarceration on Trial,” Jonathan Simon argues that a 2011 Supreme Court decision that will improve overcrowded conditions and neglect in California prisons may also have a positive …

We need to put a halt to the systems that hide and perpetuate inequality. We need to decouple from an economy of infinite choice, an economy of disposability.

On September 5th, 1989 President George H.W. Bush gave a speech from the Oval Office that defined a generation.

The UN General Assembly votes Tuesday on a convention that could enact a global bankruptcy process and stop predatory hedge funds.

The story of Mike Brown’s life and death is not unique. Stories of violence enacted by police, directed at and experienced by Black folks abound.

Country music legend Willie Nelson and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young will perform in Nebraska to help support activist efforts against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Australian Aboriginal art could be viewed as a particular culture's prescient response to the most pressing threat to humankind.