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CHICAGO - Alex Kotlowitz sat at the head of the room, a hand on his broad forehead, another holding a pen poised over a student paper. Around him sat the 19 undergraduates at Northwestern University who had registered for his class, "The Journalism o

Doug Todd had never organized a political event, and before February, he had never even been to a protest. But several weeks ago, he helped pack 200 people into the Tower Theatre in Roseville, California, for a town hall meeting with local Congressma

To hear the media tell it, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is soft on white-collar crime. First came the news that an attorney for Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. had arranged a fund-raiser for Vance after he refused to prosecute them f

Since 2016, the Trump resistance has suggested a number of ways to keep another Donald Trump from winning a presidential election. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, for example, argues that Democrats should embrace stronger populist economic polic

A Beltway scandal that calls into question the independence of a Google-backed think tank strengthens the argument that tech has too much money.

A new book argues that the giving patterns of today’s wealthy may present challenges to the democratic process.