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Dear Mr. Bezos: You’re the richest man in the world, with a net worth of $160 billion according to Forbes. According to Time Magazine, in early 2018 you were earning $230,000 a minute (which comes to $13,800,000 an hour.) You’re also the owner of The Washington Post,...

As Maryland prepares to name a new governor on November 6, voters have a clear choice: Ben Jealous, the Democratic challenger, or Republican incumbent Larry Hogan. Jealous is the former Rhodes Scholar who in 2008 became the youngest-ever national leader of the NAACP...

Something good is happening in the Gem State. Real good. You might not read it yet in headlines, but it’s happening - and real - everywhere from Boise to Idaho Falls. "We're winning the war of ideas, and that's why they're worried,” says Paulette Jordan. “They might...

44 million people in the US owe nearly $1.5 trillion in student debt, a total that grows larger every day.  Students often choose between eating three meals a day, paying rent, and buying textbooks. For many of us, the excitement of graduating is tempered by the fear...

Two meticulously sourced warnings about our shared global future have appeared over the past week. The first — from a global scientific panel on the prospects for our warming planet — has terrified much of the world. The second looks at how well nations worldwide are moving to “to tackle the gap between rich and poor.” The world doesn’t seem much interested in the answers this second report offers, and that spells trouble — and catastrophe — ahead. Either we become a far more equal world or we have no shot at a sustainable future.