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“These are difficult times,” Tiokasin Ghosthorse of the Lakota Nation from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, told me. "These are difficult times, and I consider it a …

She wants to work. No child care - no work.

Elena Kagan is as guarded as any other Supreme Court nominee about her views on specific cases. But she is winning over senators anyway – by drawing giggles, laughs …

If you've tuned in to Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearings, you may have found it odd that the GOP has tried to radicalize Kagan through her work and affinity …

In the wake of the BP disaster, we've heard powerful stories from fishermen whose livelihoods may have been destroyed for decades or longer. However long it takes for the …

When Shannon Hayes made a list of easy steps for becoming a radical homemaker, she didn't realize just how revolutionary they were.

Fifty-five percent of Americans in the labor force have experienced a job loss, a pay cut, or a reduction in hours since the onset of the Great Recession in …

I spent part of last week in Washington, DC, and the heat already was so oppressive I recalled the old story that, during the summer, the British Foreign Service …

The House is expected to vote today on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits for workers who've been out of a job for more than six months. After …

Most of us have favorite movie scenes, for any number of reasons. One of mine is the exchange between a mother and her son in the 1979 movie "Breaking …