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“How does it feel reading ‘Letter from Birmingham City Jail’ as a Birmingham native?” Sitting at a dinner table in Aspen, Colorado this questi...

   The Vera Institute of Justice works to make justice systems fairer and more effective through research and innovation. It uses its unique appro...

The past few years have been marked by polarization in America — red states, blue states, stalemates in Congress, intense debates on social programs...

A quick primer on the new report released by the Aspen Institute and the National Academy for State Health Policy, The Affordable Care Act: Affording ...

As higher education advocates (and morning show devotees), it was reassuring to watch news anchors embrace the “Back to College” cycle in recent w...

In the summer of 1967, Senator Robert Kennedy embarked on a historic trip to the Mississippi Delta to see whether the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964...