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May 6, 2015

If You Care About the American Dream, You Should Care About Neighborhood Inequality

A new study released this week and...

By Rahul Bhagnari

A new study released this week and...

By Rahul Bhagnari
May 6, 2015

Home Health Care Workers Aren’t Guaranteed Minimum Wage or Overtime, and the Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow Are the Reason Why

Ever since the New Deal era, U.S. labor laws guaranteeing minimum wages and overtime pay have excluded workers who care for elderly individuals and people with...

By Matthew Harwood

Ever since the New Deal era, U.S. labor laws guaranteeing minimum wages and overtime pay have excluded workers who care for elderly individuals and people with...

By Matthew Harwood
May 6, 2015

The McConnell Surveillance Flip-Flop

Spring may have finally arrived in D.C., but Senator McConnell isn't being called a flip-...

By Rahul Bhagnari

Spring may have finally arrived in D.C., but Senator McConnell isn't being called a flip-...

By Rahul Bhagnari
May 5, 2015

Flip the Patriot Act's Kill Switch

This piece originally appeared at ...

By Rahul Bhagnari

This piece originally appeared at ...

By Rahul Bhagnari
May 4, 2015

Flowers Are Still Better Than Bullets 45 Years After the Kent State Massacre

Below is a speech in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the 1970 killings of four Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. The...

By Marc Climaco

Below is a speech in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the 1970 killings of four Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. The...

By Marc Climaco
May 4, 2015

Transgender Equality Is Not the Post-Marriage Fight of the LGBT Movement

The past few weeks have been pivotal for conversations about LGBT people in the public discourse. Just days after Olympian Bruce Jenner announced to Diane Sawyer...

By Marc Climaco

The past few weeks have been pivotal for conversations about LGBT people in the public discourse. Just days after Olympian Bruce Jenner announced to Diane Sawyer...

By Marc Climaco