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Mark Ruffalo on the bank of the Delaware River in Callicoon, N.Y., April 15, 2011. (Photo: Jennifer May / The New York Times) Actor/Director Mark Ruffalo, a …

A Palestinian youth demonstrates for an independent Palestine at the Kalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Sept. 17, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) …

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the opening session of the White House Rural Economic Forum at Northeast Iowa Community College, in Peosta, Iowa, Aug. 16, 2011. (Photo: Doug …

Kelly Wiedemer, an information technology operations analyst who said she was told she would be a “hard sell” because she had been out of work for more than six …

Guillermo Gomez-Sanchez is a 50-year-old legal resident with a mental disability. In 2004, Gomez was detained because of a dispute at a grocery store over a bag of tomatoes. …

In Paraguay, the Ayoreo people are fighting for their very survival. These indigenous people are struggling to save their ancestral home in the Chaco region from cattle companies, farmers …

If real reform is going to happen, it has to put in place a viable, critical, formative culture that supports notions of social and engaged citizenship, civic courage, public …

Forty years ago, on September 9th, 1971, prisoners protesting medieval conditions rebelled at Attica, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. Four days later the state launched a violent …

Detroit - The United Automobile Workers and General Motors said late Friday that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract.

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