• March on Washington 2013: Why They Came

    On Saturday, thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from cities across the country. Called together by the National Action Network — the civil rights organization led by the Rev. Al Sharpton — and labor and other social-justice groups, some seemed content to simply be there or continue what they described as…

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  • Haitians Still Have No Government

    Luxin Malande says he does the only thing he can do while in his tent city. Wait. He sits outside his shanty in Port-au-Prince not far from the historic national palace, its collapsed dome-shaped roof still visible among the rubble.  People lie nearby on the ground, muddy-faced and in tattered clothes. Others hide behind broken pillars of a collapsed cathedral as…

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