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Four years after hearing the president promise bold action on student debt, most borrowers are still no better off, and many--especially defrauded debtors--are measurably worse off.

The referendum calls on the school to divest its $41 billion endowment from military weapons manufacturing firms, yet the power to do so is in the hands of the board of trustees.

High prices.

Now do it for him.

The speed of the Assad dictatorship's collapse stunned even the opposition. But the result is a power vacuum that Israel and Turkey have already moved to occupy.

To mount an opposition under the coming Trump administration, the party needs new ideas--not the same establishment clinging to power.

Voters intuitively know that the economy has not worked well for most of us for decades. Democrats must offer them a transformative vision, and stick to it for as long as it takes.

The Minnesota politician presents a riddle for historians. He was a beloved populist but also a crackpot conspiracist. Were his politics tainted by his strange beliefs?

The construction of a new basketball arena threatens to fill the neighborhood with more traffic and raise rents.

Christmas wrath.