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Democratic presidential candidates from the left: Jim Webb, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee.

4 big differences among the leading Democratic candidates ahead of Tuesday’s debate

August 21, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the world of politics by surprise the past couple of weeks, giving her support to the most liberal members of her party on trade, climate...

In this July 6, 2015 photo, an American flag is draped on the exterior of the New York Stock Exchange.

The feds say they’re finally going to go after bad guys on Wall Street

June 15, 2018 at 8:53 a.m.

Twenty-five years ago, lawyers for the George H.W. Bush administration were rounding up more bankers than you could fit in a whole fleet of stretch Hummers. The feds threw no...

Why countries that fight to host the World Cup are wasting their time

June 16, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

On Tuesday, Sepp Blatter resigned as chief of FIFA, the global governing body of soccer that has come under intense scrutiny after U.S. prosecutors alleged widespread corruption in the organization....

Gov. Sam Brownback signs a welfare reform bill into law in Topeka, Kan., Thursday, April 16, 2015. The law tells recipients that they can't use cash assistance from the state to attend concerts, get tattoos or buy lingerie.

Kansas lawmakers want the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich

August 18, 2019 at 7:18 p.m.

Wealthier Kansans are paying much less in taxes after Republican Gov. Sam Brownback overhauled the state's income tax a few years ago. Brownback and other Republican officials hoped that more...

Where the poor and rich really spend their money

June 20, 2019 at 9:13 p.m.

Lawmakers in several states are urging limits on how welfare recipients use public benefits, suggesting that the poor are buying things like lobster, filet mignon, vacations aboard cruise ships and...

A defense attorney puts his hand on the back of a defendant.

Black teens who commit a few crimes go to jail as often as white teens who commit dozens: study

August 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Boys are less likely to commit crimes, but they are more likely to be placed in a correctional facility than they were three decades ago, according to a new study...

An undated advertisement for a Crock-Pot. The electric slow cooker did not liberate women from the social stereotype or common burden of being the one responsible for cooking.

The unfulfilled promise of the Crock-Pot, an unlikely symbol of women’s equality

June 16, 2018 at 7:57 p.m.

Seventy-five years ago today, an inventor named Irving Nachumsohn received a patent for the first commercially successful electric slow cooker. A few decades later, his device was more than just...

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