National
Opponent of stop-and-frisk fears for her son
August 15, 2013"I think about the humiliation these young men go through, being stopped and frisked, and ask myself, 'When will it be my son's first time?'"
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Is South Dakota being “demonized” over treatment of Native Americans?
August 12, 2013South Dakota is a hotbed of virulent racism, perhaps without parallel anywhere else in the U.S.
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Labor going all out for “jobs and freedom” on Aug. 24
August 12, 2013The nation's unions plan a massive presence at the 50th commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous 1963 March on Washington.
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The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
August 8, 2013For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
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Enshrine voting right in the Constitution
August 7, 2013On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."
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