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Column: Poverty is this election's invisible issue : This story is part of Columnists Opinions · Column: That shot at Big Bird · Opinionline: Florida wary of both campaigns · Column: Romney needs to shake 'rich guy' ... A study released this month by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting found that news ...

This isn't a natural disaster, this is the terrorism of poverty ”  - Africa's Ebola problem is now America's Ebola problem. The best way for the United States to free itself of the terror of this virus is to ensure that it is ...

Milwaukee's oldest LGBT bar is turning 50 this week - Milwaukee's oldest LGBT bar is turning 50 this week. This is It on Wells Street is celebrating the occasion by remembering how much has changed for ...

'I don't think politicians should continue to think about people as 'this is Indian,' 'this is Black,' 'this is Latino,'" she said. “I think that this is the time ... View article...

The trans experience in Colombia: 'This is where we work – and this is where we are killed' - For LGBT people, who were regularly targeted in the violence, there is hope that the country might be made safer for them. Trans people in particular ...

Twenty-Five Percent of HBCU's Student Body Is Non- Black : Is This the End of Majority Black ... - When the HBCUs were founded, there were little choices of where African - Americans could go to school. However, Brown vs. Board of Education and the desegregation of education on the basis of race in America made it possible for Black students to choose any educational institution they qualify for to ...

Is This " American Exceptionalism"?  - We constantly hear our politicians say that " America is the greatest country in ... Inequality alone is a huge problem, but as Richard Wilkinson and Kate ...

Is This the Year of the Latino Voter?  -  Latinos have had some of the lowest voter turnout rates, but this ... And the 1,600 people standing in line in the stadium loggia weren't waiting for hot ...

Why Is This Labour Leadership Race So Boring?  - The LGBT community certainly seems to be asking itself this question. In a YouGov poll conducted back in March, the Tories were in a dead heat with ...

Is this the funniest pro- gay marriage video ever?  - Ireland is in the middle of the fight for gay marriage, and many of its opponents think if equality happens then it will be the end of the world. A hilarious ...

This stunning visualization proves America is a nation of immigrants - This stunning visualization proves America is a nation of immigrants ... how everyone in this country, except Native Americans, is from somewhere else. ... As time advances, you can see South American and Asia gaining weight, ...

This is Haiti  -  "This is my Haiti ." Rosie is so adamant, because the stereotype of Haiti is of a poverty -stricken, earthquake-ruined and crime-ridden island nation.

Is This Elderly Florida Man Really A Cat Burglar? (Video) - Opposing Views : Florida cops think that an elderly gentleman who appears to be harmless could actually be the cat burglar who has been preying on luxury apartments in a Coral Gables residential building. Surveillance footage shows the man in front of the building ... Opposing Views

Is this Mexico's chance to shine?  - Mexican officials are the first to point out their country's relatively poor ... there to assist with the country's recovery from the Latin American debt crisis.

Is this Michigan's most LGBT -friendly city?  - As examples, he said the city hired the first African - American fire commissioner in Macomb County and noted that the city has growing African ...

Is this the legacy Fayetteville really wants? - He was at Harvard when he and some of his colleagues studied America's poverty and its implications for successive generations that are mired in it.

2014: Is This Latin America's Big Year?  -  Latin America's economic growth will only increase in its upward trajectory in 2014, driven by countries such as Brazil, Chile and particularly Mexico.

Is This Puerto Rico's 'Lost Decade'? Or Even Worse?  - Debt in Latin American countries grew so much in the late 1970s that countries were eventually unable to pay even the interest on new loans.

Move over Finn and Poe, is this Star Wars' first official gay couple? - Yet, the same has happened again, with fans now more hopeful that the Star Wars franchise will finally offer an LGBT couple to its canon in the form of ...

Is This Really Happening...Again? - I have a beautiful culture that comes with a sensual language that many people cannot get enough of. Sometimes, people don't like knowing that your ...