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Why Teacher Pay Has Fallen Behind Other College Graduates Teachers earn far less than other college graduates with similar schooling, and the gap has widened for decades. The argument that the pay penalty, not a lack of passion, drives shortages. 1931: How Democrats Won the House Through Special Elections Before It Even Met Republicans won the House in 1930, but deaths and special elections handed it to Democrats before Congress met. How that happened, and what the new majority did with it. 219 to 212: The Sunday Night Vote That Passed the Affordable Care Act How a lost Senate seat, an abortion-language deal and a budget procedure got the Affordable Care Act through the House by seven votes on a Sunday night in March 2010. Abbott v. Burke and the New Jersey Courts That Ordered School Money For four decades New Jersey's highest court ordered the state to fund its poorest city schools. How Abbott v. Burke worked, what it won, and what it cost politically. Abortion Ballot Measures Since Dobbs and What Voters Decided From Ohio's Issue 1 in 2023 through the ten states that voted in 2024, a guide to the abortion measures that passed and failed, and to how legislatures tried to change the rules. ACT UP Storms the FDA and Changes How Drugs Get Approved How a 1988 protest outside the FDA in Rockville, Maryland pushed regulators toward faster access to experimental AIDS drugs, and why those rules still shape medicine today. Allen v. Milligan, Alabama's Second Black District and the Ruling of June 2023 The Supreme Court told Alabama in June 2023 to draw a second district where Black voters could elect a candidate. The state refused, and a court-drawn map finally did it. April 25, 2014, the Day Flint Switched Its Water Source How a cost-saving decision made under a state-appointed emergency manager poisoned a Michigan city's water, why the warnings were ignored for 18 months, and what changed afterward. Attica in September 1971 and the Prisoners' List of Demands What the men who took D Yard at Attica asked for in September 1971, how the state answered with gunfire, and why the lawsuits and cover-up fights lasted into this century. Barbara Lee's Lone Vote Against the 2001 War Authorization On September 14, 2001, Barbara Lee cast the only vote against the war authorization. How that 60-word law was stretched for twenty years, and what her dissent got right. Bayard Rustin, the March on Washington's Organizer Kept Offstage The man who planned the 1963 March on Washington was a gay Quaker pacifist with an arrest record. Here is how he built the march, why he was kept in the background, and what he believed came next. Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Law Signed Five Months Later On March 7, 1965, Alabama troopers beat marchers on a Selma bridge. Five months later the Voting Rights Act was law. How one afternoon became a statute, and what courts have done to it since.