Their courage made headlines across the country, hailing the African-American regiment as heroes even as they faced discrimination at home.
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After 16 years in Congress, former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich is running for Ohio’s highest office on a platform of infrastructure jobs, free college tuition and more.
Making sure tuberculosis patients take their medicine is time consuming and expensive. But in Houston, video conferencing helped officials monitor patients even during massive flooding.
Doctors then, as now, over-prescribed the painkiller to patients in need. And then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.
In Baltimore, an inventive nonprofit is teaching children from the inner city the skills they need to get good jobs in their hometown.
The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime.
James Madison and other Founders thought a president should be impeached for abuses of power that subvert the Constitution, the integrity of government, or the rule of law.
