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Republicans take the “Walk of Shame” in Michigan

January 9, 2013 By John Rummel

Before they were sworn in this morning, legislators got an earful as they approached the Capitol.

What the right wing has in mind for the states

January 9, 2013 By Kenneth Quinnell

While government in Washington, D.C., remains divided and marked by long-term gridlock, governments in the states are much less divided.

Report challenges anti-immigrant “enforcement first” calls

January 8, 2013 By Dan Margolis

The United States already spends more money on and has more infrastructure devoted to stopping undocumented immigrants from entering the country than for any other activity designated as illegal.

Gay marriage backers put the spotlight on Illinois

January 8, 2013 By John Wojcik

"We are a stable family, why shouldn't we have the same respect and the same rights as any other couple, as any other family?"

Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history

January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.