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This Mother’s Day, Help Black Mamas Get Free

As families around the country prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, thousands of mothers are sitting in jails before even having been convicted of a crime. Now Black-led groups are working together to bring these mothers home so they, too, can celebrate with their...

Donald Trump Is Waging a War on Workers

Donald Trump has ginned up a continuous din in his first four months as president, with each outrage or grotesquerie immediately followed by another. Amid the furors, it is easy to lose track of the key standard by which Trump will be judged by his key voters: his...

The ACA Is a Matter or Life or Death for Our Family

Health care saves lives, and real stories about this are pouring out at Town Hall meetings across the country. Ed Weberman, from White Lake, Michigan, explains how the Affordable Care Act saved his son’s life, and how it inspired him to fight for others. The...

What Is the Purpose of School Choice?

Another week, another round of evidence that providing parents with more "school choice," especially the kind that lets them opt out of public schools, is not a very effective vehicle for ensuring students improve academically or that taxpayer dollars are spent more...

Truth Comes Last in Lawmakers' Rush to Repeal Healthcare

House Speaker Paul Ryan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and other Republican Party leaders have slithered onto news shows to lie about the repugnant health care repeal passed by the House of Representatives. They’re lying because, simply put, the...

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