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With a grim job market and soaring debts, new graduates face the prospect of long-term indenture to the banks.

Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the United States.

Reactions to a surprise best-seller on economic inequality.

While making cars more energy efficient is a worthy goal, it is not enough.

The North American Climate-Change Denier is an invasive species that poses serious risk to other plant and animal life on the planet.

Three years after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian Revolution provides a perfect example of what mass, disruptive protest can accomplish—and what it can't.

It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change.

Whether or not you think genetically modified crops could someday have a role in sustainable agriculture, Monsanto's abuses of corporate power deserve condemnation.

Despite offering an opportunity to skewer exceptionalist arrogance, the shutdown was not a good thing.

Story after story, fueled by leaks from former security contractor Edward Snowden, is uncovering a U.S. surveillance empire with unprecedented reach and breadth.