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For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn’t always what they imagined

Money pressures lead many to scrimp on textbooks, meals and other expenses. To reach the Ivy League after growing up poor seems like hitting the jackpot. Students get a world-class education from schools that promise to meet full financial needs without making them...

The persistence of the reality gap matters | MSNBC

Has unemployment gone up or down in the Obama era? There's an objective truth, which Republican voters choose not to believe. “It’s a fact that unemployment has gone down and the stock market has gone up during the Obama administration,” said Dean Debnam, President of...

Tennessee governor vetoes bill making Bible the official state book

"My personal feeling is that this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text," Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have made the Bible the state’s official book. “In addition to the...

Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man

Aiken, S.C., cops had no reasonable cause for even the traffic stop, much less to violate the man's body. For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on an investigative series about police abuse in South Carolina. I’ve found a dizzying number of cases, including...