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The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that create a publicly administered retirement plan that would be open to anyone who works at a company with more than five …

A wrap-up of the world's May Day protests against austerity for worker rights.

Twenty low-wage dependent trade groups band together to shut down the Senate's minimum wage hike, although the majority of Americans support raising the federal minimum wage.

The issue of sexual assault on college campuses has been in the spotlight this week with a White House task force urging schools to take action.

President Obama could stiffen Tom Wheeler's spine on net neutrality with one phone call. But that's not likely, given the broken promises that litter the White House grounds.

While Palestinians celebrated the reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas, the reactions in Washington and Israel were reminiscent of the biblical “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The hearings come against a backdrop of huge domestic change with respect to the drug war.

The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington.

Isn't it time we take the instance of yet another failed execution attempt to discuss not how to execute people better, but how to get rid of the death …

The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.