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Handing previous public services over to private corporations, without assessing the full costs, can become a 75-year-long nightmare, as in the case of parking in Chicago, argues Ellen Dannin.

From West Virginia to the Gulf Coast, residents of communities facing environmental problems are discovering that visual storytelling brings results. Their number-one tool is the humble smartphone.

Immigrants have long looked to public education as the pathway to prosperity, through schools that offer their kids a springboard to the American Dream. Yet many learn the hard …

Tough US rhetoric toward Iran may be adding new obstacles to the search for a comprehensive nuclear agreement.

An advocate for peace and civil rights, Pete Seeger helped spark the folk music revival with his five-string banjo and songs calling for justice.

Washington's pivot to Asia reminds us that the leading brains in the Pacific might as well still be in the pre-World War I era.

The question facing Hawaiians: Do county governments have the power to regulate the pesticide-laden process of developing genetically engineered seeds?

Robert Naiman: In his State of the Union address, President Obama has an opportunity to talk about providing the funding to care for the veterans from a decade of …

The Menendez-Kirk Iran sanctions bill would move America closer to going to war with Iran or accepting an Iranian nuclear weapon. Have senators actually read it?

As a luge competitor at the 2006 Winter Games, Samantha Retrosi saw the dehumanization and corporate domination behind the Olympic ideal.