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“Ban the Box” Campaigns Seek to End Discrimination Against Formerly Incarcerated College Applicants
The box is more likely to dissuade, if not outright bar, people of color than their white counterparts.
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How State and Local Subsidies Fuel Inequality
More than one-third of the companies linked to individuals on the Forbes 400 are major recipients of taxpayer subsidies.
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New York State Official Raises Alarm on Charter Schools – and Gets Ignored
Add another voice to those warning about the lack of financial oversight for charter schools.
Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and The New Yorker
“My life of science is about creativity and seeing connections, not about mechanistic thought and manipulated facts.”
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Torture
State-sanctioned torture is not just a US export; it's part of a long history of domestic terrorism.
How the CIA Covered Up Its Lie on Torture and bin Laden
The Senate report reveals how the CIA used the film “Zero Dark Thirty” to popularize the agency's false account of its torture program.
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Building a Better Border Means Relating to Communities
Immigration advocates must work to replace the dominant security narrative around the US-Mexico border.
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We Thought We Were Free
Authoritarianism is a disease. It moves and grows gradually, but inexorably.
Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned for Fighting the Whirlpool Corporation
Rev. Pinkney, a social justice activist in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced to serve up to 10 years in prison.
As Washington “Pivots” to Asia, China Does the Eurasian Pirouette
At the same moment that China is proposing a new Eurasian integration, Washington has opted for an “empire of chaos.”