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Black History Month: Five major events and figures
Black History Month is the annual celebration of the struggles, achievements and overall contribution African-Americans have made to the US.
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The Monitor's View: IRS scandal as a lesson in civic values
The IRS targeting of conservative political groups may not have been political itself. But it shows a serious need for more civics education in America about basic freedoms like the First Amendment.
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The Monitor's View: Are gun politics too complex? Simplicity would help.
As the Newtown families plead for Congress to act, lawmakers – and President Obama – admit to the complexity of gun issues. Scholars on simplicity offer some ideas.
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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor's new book steps a bit too carefully through any and all political minefields.
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Supreme Court takes up gay marriage: what the justices have to decide
The main question before the Supreme Court is not whether the Constitution protects gay marriage, but whether Prop. 8 and DOMA discriminate in violation of the 14th Amendment.
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3 lawyers test human rights cases from abroad in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear a case Monday which could determine whether cases involving foreign governments committing atrocities in their own countries should be heard in the US court system.
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Why single-sex education is spreading across the US
An estimated 500 public schools across the US now offer some all-boy and all-girl classrooms. But the American Civil Liberties Union is involved in a battle against single-sex learning.
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Next step for Supreme Court on Obamacare: secret Friday vote
The justices meet to discuss the health-care bill on Friday.
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
Jean Edward's Smith's new biography obliterates earlier arguments that Eisenhower’s was a dull, torpid presidency.
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Black History Month: Five major events and figures
Black History Month is the annual celebration of the struggles, achievements and overall contribution African-Americans have made to the US.
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Philadelphia 'flash mobs': black mayor takes aim at black community
The crackdown on 'flash mobs' by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has put him in the center of a debate about how black leaders should respond to violence within their own community.
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The Monitor's View: Jobs-focused education leaves history in the dustbin
New test scores on history and civics reveal how little American students know their nation's past. Yet such knowledge is essential for active citizens.
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Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of July 12, 2010
Readers write in about Elena Kagan and diversity on the Supreme Court.
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Opinion: The surprising star at Elena Kagan's hearing: Thurgood Marshall
Because Obama has avoided engaging the empathy debate, Republicans tried to use Kagan's mentor and former US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as a way to taint Kagan's reputation.
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Are American schools returning to segregation?
The Supreme Court launched the desegregation of schools with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Now, once diverse districts like Goldsboro, N.C., are reverting to segregation, concerning civil rights advocates.
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Opinion: Kagan, abortion, and the Supreme Court’s coming moment of truth on Roe v. Wade
A new Nebraska abortion law could make its way to the Supreme Court. Instead of using evolving medical science to redefine when life begins, the court must hold that the due process clause’s primary guarantee of life make abortion unconstitutional.
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Elena Kagan not a judge? Well, at least she went to law school.
Critics say Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan might not be qualified, since she's never been a judge. But historically, most Supreme Court justices never graduated from law school.
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Shallow historical roots for Sotomayor's public grilling
A Supreme Court confirmation hearing is a Washington tradition that seems as old as the Constitution – but isn’t.
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Lift Every Voice
On its 100th anniversary, a history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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The Monitor's View: Does Sotomayor practice identity justice?
The Senate must weigh her comments about judicial impartiality
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Opinion: Supreme Court's bench has never been less diverse
Race and gender are important, but with six Harvard justices, President Obama should consider geographic, professional, and social backgrounds, too, when he evaluates nominees.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers write about how President Obama should choose his judicial appointees.
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Changing the game for good
The Monitor's language columnist looks at a term that almost everyone wants to pin on Sarah Palin.
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Remarks by Barack Obama: 'A More Perfect Union'
Delivered Tuesday March 18, 2008, at Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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Opinion: Stop playing the race card
Hyped-up charges of bias distract from the real work of correcting racial inequalities.
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Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion
For kids: US Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American to be appointed to the highest court in the land.
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