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Stories about freezing classrooms in Baltimore and a teacher being handcuffed and arrested for asking a question to her school board in Louisiana reveal why the nation's school funding crisis is a race and gender justice issue.

January 2 was Fat Cat Tuesday, a feast of corporate revelry and gluttony. That's when the boards of directors of America’s biggest corporations handed their CEOs more money than they pay their workers for an entire year of labor.

New Yorkers face grave threats as Trump and GOP lawmakers punish states that don’t endorse their divisive agenda. But there is a way we can survive this current crisis, and emerge stronger, if we stand together as a state and as a country.

Americans love democracy, at least in principle. So how have Republicans been able to successfully engage in a decades-long assault on voting rights? It's time for the GOP to pay a political price for undermining democracy at home.

What qualifications are needed to manage and reform the Indian health system? Robert Weaver, Trump's nominee, comes from insurance, not medicine, and will be the least-educated director of the service ever.

Trump has helped rouse the resistance and inspire new movements. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” After one year of Trump, we can already see the first rays of light.

We who oppose tyranny in all its guises don’t yet have our own Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Martin Luther King, Jr. - but we have their words.