Could totally scrapping welfare and creating jobs eliminate poverty?
Author Peter Cove joins Salon's Carrie Sheffield to discuss rethinking welfare dependence and the war on poverty VIDEO
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Author Peter Cove joins Salon's Carrie Sheffield to discuss rethinking welfare dependence and the war on poverty VIDEO
Friday, Feb 24, 2017 4:30 PM UTC 0Ordinary people smuggled, copied or collected materials in the fear that ideas might be lost
Friday, Feb 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC 0In a world where women are often the "lovely assistant," Tanya Solomon takes charge by making her own magic.
Friday, Feb 24, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0Chattel slavery was abolished 150 years ago, but Booker T. Washington's offspring reminds us never to forget VIDEO
Friday, Feb 24, 2017 1:30 AM UTC 0It's possible that Portman is reacting to the heated protests that have greeted GOP legislators so far
Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 8:45 PM UTC 0New York City will not comply with any warrants issued by federal immigration officials
Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 7:46 PM UTC 0Sen. Mitch McConnell's words about Sen. Elizabeth Warren become inspiration for body art
Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 5:19 PM UTC 0Standing Rock water protectors torched their teepees, just so the Army Corps couldn't touch them VIDEO
Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 10:00 AM UTC 0A detailed look at what leaders of houses of worship can and cannot say under the Johnson Amendment
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 2:49 PM UTC 0Does technology shackle us and make our social skills atrophy?
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 2:46 PM UTC 0Obamacare repeal could end coverage for 1.8 million people who received treatment
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 12:07 PM UTC 0An emerging U.S. movement helps people quit hate organizations
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 1:00 AM UTC 0Libertarians emphasize private property rights, so crashing their private event was not the smartest idea
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 8:14 PM UTC 0The friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed helped the president through serious depression
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 9:29 AM UTC 0By their witness, the Standing Rock Sioux and other protesters teach us that "the sacred" takes many forms
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 9:28 AM UTC 0College sex has gone from a hope to an expectation, and no one is nice about it, says Dr. Lisa Wade VIDEO
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 1:00 AM UTC 0Construction worker deaths are rising in New York, and Latinos are especially at risk
Monday, Feb 20, 2017 9:30 PM UTC 0Conservationist filmmakers on the race to save the big cats VIDEO
Monday, Feb 20, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0As Trump’s wall threatens to become a reality, four Mexicans deported under Obama lose their hope of returning
Monday, Feb 20, 2017 10:58 AM UTC 0The first "Fifty Shades" movie inspired me to make asinine dating choices. I fear "Fifty Shades Darker"
Monday, Feb 20, 2017 12:30 AM UTC 0The discussion around Donald Trump's son is irresponsible and offensive. It's the president who should be our focus
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 10:30 PM UTC 0On Saturday night I don latex and beat men with paddles. On Sunday morning I go to church. Are they much different?
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 10:29 PM UTC 0Everyone wants justice for Freddie Gray. But could Freddie Gray have called you if he needed a job reference?
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 9:30 PM UTC 0A lesson on how to fall back in love with your country, even in times of instability
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 8:29 PM UTC 0While farmers' earnings dip and agribusiness thrives, remember that consumers crave local, sustainable, tasty food
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 12:00 PM UTC 0How I learned to embrace compassion not just for the powerless, but for Donald Trump and Paul Ryan as well
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 12:30 AM UTC 0Indigenous peoples are already central in the fights for clean water and against global warming — food may be next
Sunday, Feb 19, 2017 12:29 AM UTC 0Native American designers face uphill battle infiltrating mainstream art and fashion markets, but still make gains
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 10:30 PM UTC 0The bottom half of U.S. earners saw their incomes declined by 1 percent, while the top 1 percent saw a rise of 198
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 10:29 PM UTC 0Alan Bersin says a border wall won’t address the real challenges confronting the U.S. border enforcement system
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 8:29 PM UTC 0Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" at the center of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, has died
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 7:17 PM UTC 0At 16, Abbas Yahya left his small hometown in Western Darfur, dreaming of making it in the city
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 12:29 PM UTC 0More Mexican gray wolves roam the American Southwest than at any time in nearly two decades
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 1:31 AM UTC 0A desolate volcano could be the key to unraveling the sudden, mysterious death of Kim Jong Nam
Saturday, Feb 18, 2017 12:15 AM UTC 0Author Douglas Preston describes seeing a lost city hidden in Honduras VIDEO
Friday, Feb 17, 2017 4:30 PM UTC 0Both slaves and free African-Americans invented and innovated
Friday, Feb 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC 0The ultimate fate of the pipeline will turn on how the courts recognize the rights asserted by the tribes
Friday, Feb 17, 2017 9:59 AM UTC 0The first lady's alleged discontent with her new job explains her "wait-and-see" approach to White House move
Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 11:31 PM UTC 0The civil rights icon and fierce political activist was supported from an unlikely source
Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 10:49 PM UTC 0The “tan soldiers" were mostly left out of the triumphant narrative of America’s “Greatest Generation”
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