Shady bond deals at root of Chicago school funding crisis
Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money will be diverted from Chicago's school children to high interest loan payments to bankers over the next three decades.
Inequality by the numbers
We Americans like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country where the top is not out of reach and the bottom doesn't pose such a grim, cautionary specter.
This week in history: Kickass black feminist Flo Kennedy born
She was a lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer, writer and feminist.
Sanders’ “political revolution” wins in New Hampshire primary
"The American people are showing that they will no longer accept a political system bought and paid for by the billionaire class," Sanders said in his victory speech.
Climate Disobedience Center defends oil blockaders -- and so many others
In the face of increasing fossil fuel disasters and legal crackdowns on civil disobedience, the need for this organization and others like it has never been greater.
Trump plans to give the country to his billionaire buddies
"I have the greatest dealmakers in the world: the richest men, the richest women, people who are truly successful."
Students to Gov. Rauner: "Do your damn job"
CSU students, faculty, alumns, and community gathered around the Thompson Center where many state offices are located to protest the state's budget impasse.
Media and political tourists create party-like atmosphere in New Hampshire
A demonstration for raising the minimum wage got a lot of coverage in tiny Goffstown, and reporters covered a meeting of Latinos who mounted a get-out-the-vote campaign.
Chris Christie: merely a carbon copy of all the other GOP hopefuls
Christie repeated the same spiel being spun by all the Republican candidates, often using the same words, but did not claim his proposals were handed down by God..
