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The jokes in the HBO comedy may not be all that funny, but the show reveals something raw and authentic about public-school dynamics.

On Oct. 13, the U.S. carried out its first direct military action against Houthi targets in Yemen, in alleged retaliation for two failed missile attacks on a U.S. ship. The Obama Administration thus underscored its position as a co-belligerent in the Saudi-led war, even as calls mount for an international investigation into Saudi war crimes following the Oct. 8th bombing of a funeral that killed 140 people and wounded hundreds of others, the deadliest attack of the war.

His calls for racial voter intimidation on Election Day could explode in all our faces.

After striking for a day April 1 and coming to the brink of a long strike this fall, Chicago teachers are mulling a tentative agreement that won something unprecedented. They pressured the mayor into pulling money out of Chicago's treasure chest of diverted property taxes, the Tax Increment Finance program.

As white nationalist and Islamophobic rhetoric gains prominence in election, threats of anti-Muslim violence rise sharply.

Celebrating the Beginning of the "End Times"? "Global warming presents a clear and present danger to civilization." -- Lonnie G. Thompson, expert on glacial melt, 2010.

“This is a drug that has long been a standard of care, and until recently it was widely accessible at an affordable price,” said Dr. Michael Kosnett, “There’s no justification for the astronomical price increases by Valeant, which limit availability to children with life-threatening lead poisoning.”

On May 8, 2006, the South African Judge Willem van der Merwe ruled that ANC leader Jacob Zuma was not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo. Zuma did not deny having sex with her, but claimed since the victim wore a khanga, a wraparound cloth, she had “asked for it.” Here is her poetic response.