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April 12, 2013In "Blankets," an excerpt from Sherman Alexie's new collection entitled Blasphemy, he recounts his attempts to comfort his ailing father as he recovered from surgery.
April 11, 2013Poet Laura Da's work about driving through her birthplace, near Vantage, Wash., with her father, and the thoughts about family history the journey brings.
March 23, 2013Here are three equitable alternatives to modern capitalism’s self-destructive values.
March 22, 2013In this excerpt from Sheila Bair's book, she lays out three reforms to make the regulatory system work better.
March 13, 2013A coalition of mayors, counties and local activists overcame a bill that would have prohibited municipalities from building their own broadband networks.
March 13, 2013Thanks to our open records laws, you can find a treasure trove of information from government agencies on the Web.
March 1, 2013"It's hard to exaggerate how famous he was in the last two decades of the 19th century," our guest Susan Jacoby says of Robert Ingersoll, the subject of her new book, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. But Ingersoll, once a "mover and shaker" in the Republican Party, is largely forgotten today. Why? He spoke out in favor of the separation of church and state and promoted Darwin's theory of evolution, and because ...
February 20, 2013Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune responds to critics of the Forward on Climate coalition's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline.
February 6, 2013The FTC's investigation into the search giant ended before questions were asked about Google's ability to limit what we read on the Internet.
February 3, 2013For the first time in its 100-year history, America's central bank will be run by a woman.
