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What Do Private Prisons Have to Do With the Upcoming Election?
As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return?
Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the New Brutalism
The crisis of higher education is about more than a crisis of funding and an assault on dissent; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics.
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The Role of Storytelling in Economics
The New Industrial Organization made it OK to tell stories rather than prove theorems.
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Does Crying Terrorism Trump Free Speech?
The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal of Tarek Mehanna marks another step in the US government's history of attempts to curtail free speech rights.
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William Rivers Pitt | This Nation of Cowards
Kaci Hickox's quarantine is but one example of a nation that has entirely surrendered to its fears, both real and imagined.
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“You Got Into My Heart Violently, but You’re There“
“I don't think I'm particularly bothered by the fact that death is inevitable. I'm not embracing death, but I'm not afraid of it.”
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Concerned About ISIS, but Also About Endless War? Back Limits on the Use of Force
Polls show the majority of Americans think that Congress should debate and vote to use military force.
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What Has Greed Cost the United States?
Greed should be tightly regulated and controlled - it should be seen as the mental illness and social illness that it is.
Nurses Emerge as Front Line “Climate Workers”
The nature of work is changing and we're not prepared.
Disappeared
Under the 17-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, 3,197 people were disappeared, tens of thousands imprisoned and tortured and hundreds of thousands forced into exile.