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  1. What’s the Best Way to Solve the Student Debt Crisis?
    6 Jun 2013 … In our latest Group Think, experts suggest ways to address the crushing financial burden on American students. Continue reading
  2. The President Plays with Matches Indonesian demonstrators burn a photo featuring US President Donald Trump during a protest against his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Banda Aceh on Dec. 10, 2017. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2017 … Once again the country watches in horror as firefighters struggle to contain blazes of historic voracity — as we watched only a couple of months ago when at least 250 wildfires spread across the counties north of San Francisco. All Continue reading
  3. Years of Living Dangerously Returns To Television Sunday Years of Living Dangerously
    10 Oct 2016 … Though inadequate to save the planet, the Paris agreement was a major milestone, driven in part by President Obama’s willingness to take some initial action to confront this looming threat. Yet the topic of climate change hardly came up in Continue reading
  4. I’m Proud My Mother Was Arrested Fighting Extremism in North Carolina Holiday Clinkscale II waves an American flag as he joins thousands of people of protesters in downtown downtown Raleigh, N.C., Saturday Feb. 8, 2014. Nearly 200 organizations are joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the "Moral March on Raleigh," a new name for the "Historic Thousands on Jones Street," as it was originally called. Jones Street referred to the street where the Legislative Building stands and the usual terminus of the march. Advocates are angry about bills Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law, including the refusal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law; a reduction in unemployment benefits; an elections-overhaul law that requires photo identification to vote in person; the elimination of the earned income tax credit; and taxpayer-funded grants for low-income children to attend private K-12 schools. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
    2 Feb 2014 … 80,000 marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965. Continue reading
  5. Capitol Crimes
    9 Sep 2006 … Untangling the web of political corruption that continues even after the fall of Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. Continue reading
  6. These Cities Might Just Save the Country Organizers at the Fearless Cities Summit in Barcelona on June 9, 2017. (Photo by ahora madrid | Flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … Ever since the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, an old English word with Greek roots has been seeping back into circulation. The word, kakistocracy, means “a government by the worst people,” and it has struck such a resonant chord Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: Vaccine News Should Make People More Cautious of COVID Pfizer's corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … Pfizer is out this morning saying that an early look at its Phase 3 trial for the coronavirus vaccine shows that there’s been a 90 percent effectiveness rate. It’s important to begin with the point that this is preliminary and not Continue reading
  8. How to Donate Food or Volunteer at a Food Bank
    11 Nov 2013 … Millions of Americans are struggling as Congress continues to cut the safety net. Here's what you can do to help. Continue reading
  9. Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues in Paperback
    4 Apr 2012 … Conversations with Bill Moyers are not just a must-watch; they’re also a good read. Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, Bill Moyers’ hand-picked collection of conversations from his unique and award-winning public affairs series Bill Moyers Journal, is now available Continue reading
  10. Six Vital Conversations Jumpstarted on the Streets of Ferguson A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
    8 Aug 2014 … The unrest in Ferguson appears to be settling, but it prompted debates that continue. Continue reading