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Morna McDermott has mapped the Common Core State Standard Initiative's corporate connections in a chart that illustrates the corporate takeover of public education.

Syrian anarchist activist Nader Atassi explores the non-fundamentalist and truly democratic resistance to the Assad regime.

While discussion of poverty has been lacking since President Reagan railed that the poor were responsible for their own plight, new signs of concern and fresh thinking have emerged, …

How much do you really know about the core curriculum that American students are taught?

While the Golden State may be sitting on an oil fortune, the California coast is all too familiar with offshore drilling catastrophes.

Our democracy? Really? Is the U.S. system a democracy, and if so, does it belong to us?

Voting rights for prisoners and ex-felons is just the logical next step.

You need to know this. The G20 summit in Russia is officially underway, and it's being dubbed an international showdown.

Edwin Lyman, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, talks with Rachel Maddow about the alarming new radiation readings coming from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and …

Teachers blockade downtown Mexico City to protest education reforms they say is harmful to public schools.