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I recently came across an article that brought attention to a particularly troublesome bit of curriculum being employed by an elementary school in Duluth, Georgia. When third-grade …

(Image: The New Press) Bill Moyers has a new book out. In the interest of full disclosure, I edited the book with him and co-wrote its introduction. …

I call him Class Warrior. He stands in front of me at a Circle K station. He is an outsider, excluded from the winnings market free play has placed …

Last month, the Vermont Senate passed legislation, approved earlier by the House, that would establish a single payer health care system in the state. The legislation would make Vermont …

In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in "The Eye …

It is hard to see why anyone was surprised by Newt Gingrich's self-ignited implosion in the earliest hours of his presidential candidacy. The career of the former House speaker …

US Army Spc. Kory Wiels and his military working canine Cooper take a break after searching a house for weapons and homemade explosives in Arab Jabour, southern Baghdad, Iraq, …

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was produced with support from a New America Media reporting fellowship on children in poverty in California, and is part two of a three part …

In a hearing this morning, the House Ways and Means Committee examined “improper payments” made in the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which distributed $64 billion in refundable tax …