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Nationally noted activist/educator Dr. Walter D. Palmer, founder of an innovative charter school in Philadelphia, is in a historic battle with Philadelphia School District officials which could impact charters …

Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him …

In France, millions march against the Sarkozy plan to push the age of eligibility for full retirement benefits from 65 to 67. “We can no longer afford” to pay …

With Halloween approaching, it’s not goblins and witches and ghosts that Democrats have to fear. It’s mere numbers - poll numbers. And for majority Democrats in Congress and President …

This country of ours has a monstrous capacity to forget. We are able to forget - if we ever knew - what happened two hundred years ago, one hundred …

Ronald Reagan delivered some one-liner doozies, one of which is still a favorite of several members of Congress and talking heads on cable news: "The most terrifying words in …

Laurie Goodstein's September 5 New York Times article, “American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?” was intended as a sympathetic reading of the concerns of US Muslim communities facing …

Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. Special Forces and heavy bombers dropping 2,000-pound bombs on Taliban command and control centers wrapped …

Forestry advocates are warning that a UN-backed plan to preserve disappearing forests in poor nations could do the opposite if alleged loopholes are not closed. Under the politically popular …

The political motives behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to present a Press Freedom Award to Kurt Westergaard - the Danish cartoonist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed ignited …