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In January 2010, when New York Governor David Paterson unveiled plans for the enactment of a “Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act,” it set the stage for dismantling …

Any day now, the Obama administration will announce $4.35 billion in extra federal funds for under-performing public schools. That's fine, but relative to the financial squeeze all the nation's …

In the wake of last week's summit on health care insurance reform, President Obama demonstrated his willingness to compromise by making some incremental concessions to Republicans in a speech …

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) celebrates its seventh anniversary, its immigration agencies are struggling to “create more humane ways to enforce broken laws” - but trying to …

Monday evening, after a rousing speech in Philadelphia pushing for health reform passage, President Obama will celebrate International Women's Day with a White House reception honoring women around the …

Break down today's unemployment stats, and it looks like women are faring much better than men in the great recession. That is, unless they're single and raising kids.

Driven by anger toward “political, demographic, and economic changes,” a surge of anti-government extremist groups occurred this year, according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center …

A bill currently working its way through the Arizona legislature would criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants in the state through an expansion of its trespass laws, increase the …

During January, I had the opportunity to visit Tallahassee's “Cornerstone Learning Community,” an oasis of love, experiment and investigation, actual respect for each individual person, and a sense of …

Stewart Resnick, the Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoon who owns 115,000 acres of farmland in Kern County, appears to be putting his bets on Jerry Brown as the winner of …