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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Can David Still Sue Goliath?
Class-action lawsuits, a longtime check on powerful interests, are getting harder to file. Now, lawyers with large groups of clients are getting creative in reuniting the aggrieved.
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Adam Hunger/Reuters The Utah Lawyers Who Are Making Legal Services Affordable
A sliding-scale model plus a bit of creativity allows Open Legal Services to represent those with few other options.
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Library of Congress Is There Such a Thing as an Affordable Lawyer?
For many Americans, legal services are out of reach. But that's beginning to change.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters The Polarized Partisan Geography of Inequality
Democrats represent some of the richest House districts—but they're also more likely to have deeply unequal constituencies. Is that why the party is more focused on income disparities?
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Yoichi Okamoto/National Archives A Tale of Two Bullies: Why Chris Christie Is No Lyndon Johnson
Americans may admire a politician who can play hardball, but it matters whether his victim is a political opponent or an innocent citizen.
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David Goldman/AP Photo There's a Cheaper, More Effective Way to Train Teachers
Why school systems across the country should adopt an apprenticeship model
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Reuters How Obamacare Lost Its Soul
The president has replaced the moral case for reform with a transactional one. That's a mistake.
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Reuters Don't Call It a Shutdown: How the Crisis Could Still Come Back to Bite Democrats
By saying the government is closed when most of it actually isn't, good-government advocates risk undermining the public's already meager faith in the state.
