After Recession, More Young Adults Are Living on the Street

Across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits or work histories, are struggling to house themselves in the wake of the recession.

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The Right to Know

The answer, we believe, is to crowd-fund transparency, making it easy and relatively anonymous for the public to support the best watchdogs in one place.

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Bombing North Dakota: What It's Like to Live Amid the Oil Boom

The oil rush in North Dakota has turned life there inside out.

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A Constitutional Case Against Felony Voter Disenfranchisement Laws

Obama’s recent court victory on early voting may have carved a legal path for fighting down felony disenfranchisement laws.

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Argument to Raise the Minimum Wage, Part I

At the heart of the poverty challenge lies the controversial concept of the minimum wage.

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NYPD for Hire: How Uniformed New York Cops Moonlight for Banks

No one begrudges an officer doing security work in his own time, but the Paid Detail Unit creates worrying conflicts of interest.

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Defeating "Right to Work"

The passage in Michigan of the anti-worker legislation grotesquely misnamed "Right to Work" should be putting the entire nation on red alert.

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205,000 Parents of U.S. Citizens Deported in Two Years

The federal government has conducted more than 200,000 deportations of parents whose children are U.S. citizens in a timespan of just over two years.

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In Indiana, Regulator Helps ALEC Coal Companies Delay EPA Climate Rules

Leaked documents reveal how Big Coal, ALEC and an Indiana environmental regulator pushed to delay EPA rules to control greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous air pollution.

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Morsi: Egypt's New Pharoah

What's happening now in Egypt is the story of most revolutions.

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