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As we all know, going to college is expensive. For many families, the cost of attending college has been financed through credit – relying on the…

The Biden Administration’s plans to tackle the nation’s infrastructure woes and to combat climate change are among the top policy issues stuck in the U.S.…

The world is in crisis: climate change has triggered once-in-a-millennium catastrophic weather events and we are all enduring the second year of a…

For over a decade the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) has been the state’s leading ethics watchdog agency. Its job is to oversee compliance with…

Last week, western North America suffered through a record-breaking heat wave. In the month of June, nearly 90 percent of the western US was in a state of…

The ongoing ideological fight over whether the United States should ensure that all Americans have health care coverage came to a head last week with the…

Lawmakers wrapped up the 2021 legislative session last week. In some ways, the session was unlike others. For the entire January to June session the…

New York’s campaign financing system has been called a “disgrace” and an “embarrassment.” One of the most brazen examples of the disgraceful nature of the…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark reform in American democracy. In 1971, the nation approved the 26th Amendment – a change that allowed…

It is well established that the oil companies knew for decades that the burning of fossil fuels would result in a hotter planet. They knew it and yet did…