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By Adele Stan The Republican Party has a Donald Trump problem—and that has some Democrats thanking Lady Luck for apparently blowing on their dice. The casino mogul, after all, has…
byRev. William Albert Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump often wears a baseball hat, with the words emblazoned across the top, “Make America Great Again.” What should alarm voters is the…
by Roxana Saberi TOKYO — Ariana Miyamoto was born and raised in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. But she said most people in her homeland see her as a foreigner….
Tens of thousands of people in the United States and abroad have signed petitions calling on President Barack Obama to accept more Syrian refugees, as European governments continue to grapple…
By Aaron, Estela Vazquez and Lenore Friedlaender Image Source: Photo from the People’s Climate March in NYC on Sept. 21, 2014. This Labor Day, we are joining together to celebrate…
By Nathan Schneider (Doug Chayka) A few weeks before the release this summer of Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s manifesto on ecology and poverty, I…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs A woman wears a shirt with ‘Black Lives Matter’ during a memorial service for slain 18 year-old Michael Brown Jr. on August 9, 2015 at the…
By Julia Craven & Nick Wing A protester advocates against police brutality in St. Louis. Sheriff Ron Hickman of Harris County, Texas, isn’t quite sure why suspect Shannon J. Miles…
For too long, we have looked in the wrong place and race for the genesis of our national story. By David Levering Lewis Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, writer and…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post Ernest Hemingway once said that courage was “grace under pressure.” Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have recently tested this proposition….
School has begun, or is set to open, in public school districts across the country. As happens every school year, children will trek off to school with their backpacks loaded…