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Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

WHEN I was young and starting a family, my source of guidance on how to raise children was what my parents did and what Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote. The best-selling American pediatrician said that positive parenting involves a process of identifying a strength within our child, naming it, and then praising that strength.

The ideological lens we choose to view the world through is crucial. As Karl Marx asserted, those who cannot represent themselves must be represented. Are we willing to make this course correction?

Benjamin Spock's “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare” encouraged parents to think for themselves and to trust their instincts.

To those who cut their teeth on the protest movements of the 1960s, voices raised against nuclear weapons is music to their ears.

He helped transform the ACLU from an organization that mostly wrote briefs on major cases to one that represented individual clients before the high court.

A second after the plastic shovel hit my son’s arm, the other boy’s mother was rushing towards the sandbox, a look of Can’t I relax for five seconds? on he..

It’s impossible to imagine a richer, more fulfilling life than the one recounted by Rose Styron in her brilliant, beautiful new book.

Celebrate your very first Mothers Day with these new mom quotes.

<p>A leading historian of poor people's activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS. </p>