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Chicago’s schools won’t close quietly
Kenzo Shibata
Is Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett ready for the city's newly organized teachers union?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg must go
Jonathan Bernstein
The GOP could take the Senate in 2014. If the justice wants to be replaced by a liberal, now's the time to resign
How Jimmy Carter imperiled Roe v. Wade
Michael J. Gerhardt
Pro-life Democrat didn't defend abortion rights against Reagan's attacks, helped create right-leaning Supreme Court
Obama: Let’s rebuild our infrastructure
Josh Lederman
While visiting a Miami port Friday, the president laid out a plan to create new jobs through public works projects
Paid sick leave: The next liberal litmus test?
Randy LoBasso
Providing paid sick leave for workers is rapidly becoming a national Democratic priority. Oppose it at your peril
EPA hopes to tighten emissions standards on cars
Dina Cappiello
The proposed rule could increase gas prices by less than a penny per gallon
Obama: “Shame on us” if we forget Newtown
Alan Fram
The president urged lawmakers Thursday not to "get squishy" in the face of gun rights advocates
America’s many blood-soaked anniversaries
Tom Engelhardt
Hiroshima. My Lai. The Iraq War. There are almost too many to count
Salon’s gay marriage courage-meter
Benjamin Wheelock, Blake Zeff
WIth more politicians endorsing LGBT marriage each day, here's who's shown guts -- and who just followed the flock
Farmers and food safety advocates lead Monsanto backlash
Connor Adams Sheets
Both groups object to legislation they consider a gift to companies producing genetically engineered crops
How the Monsanto Protection Act snuck into law
Natasha Lennard
A provison that protects the biotech giant from litigation passed Congress without many members knowing about it
Bibi and Barack, new best friends?
Noga Tarnopolsky
With gun nuts hoarding bullets, will cops be disarmed?
Alex Seitz-Wald
Gun owners terrified of nonexistent plans to restrict ammo are hoarding bullets. Now police are running out
Supreme Court hears challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
Mark Sherman
A section of the 1996 Act says federal law will only recognize marriage between a man and a woman
The last, worst argument against gay marriage
Alex Pareene
When you lose arguments based on bigotry, you're left with one based on an idea of marriage we rejected already
Major corporations are pocketing your taxes
Joshua Holland
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston explains how the economy is rigged to benefit the one percent
Obama appoints first female head of Secret Service
Katie McDonough
President Obama named Julia Pierson, a longtime agent, as the first female director of the Secret Service
How not to seem like a racist
Joan Walsh
A tip for right-wingers angry about charges of racial bias: Try treating the Obama daughters with decency
David Foster Wallace had Sandusky’s interviewer right
Jacob Sugarman
John Ziegler's "Today" show appearance reminds its viewers of a classic magazine profile
Scott Walker hires torture apologist to ghostwrite campaign book
Alex Pareene
Marc Thiessen will collaborate with the Wisconsin governor on a book in preparation for 2016
Republicans love poor people now
Blake Zeff
The party that forever demonized struggling Americans now realizes it needs them, in order to survive. Oops
Israel to Turkey: We’re sorry
Ian Deitch
The Israeli government has formally apologized for the botched naval raid that left nine Turkish activists dead
Obama “completely conquers” Israel
Noga Tarnopolsky
As Israeli officials can attest, his trip to the Holy Land has dissolved all hard feelings from his first term
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