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The annual Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conference, held in 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, looks like any other industry gathering. The 600 or so attendees [...]

This piece was written by Susan Faludi and originally published on CNN Editor’s note: Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and author of “Backlash: The Undecla[...]

The rise and fall of the professional-managerial class. Should we mourn the fate of the Professional Managerial Class or rejoice that there is one less smug, self-styled, elite to [...]

The doors of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco don’t open until 7 am, but on the Saturday morning I was there, a dozen or so people were already lined up by 5[...]

It was the week before Thanksgiving and Dr. Willie Parker was making small talk with a group of patients at an abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. “What are your plans f[...]

Two years ago, Harvard professor Kathryn Edin was in Baltimore interviewing public housing residents about how they got by. As a sociologist who had spent a quarter century studyin[...]

NEW TOWN N.D. –When the black gold rush began, no one on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation expected it to take down Main Street. A modest strip of one- and two-story build[...]

Truancy courts are hitting students with harsh penalties and collecting millions of dollars in fines. But are they addressing the real problems?[...]

On the night of Barack Obama’s election, I was reporting in the crowd of Chicago’s Grant Park, and like many Americans felt hopeful that our country was finally ready to deal with [...]