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Michelle Rhee’s Empty Harvest
The spectacular rise and fall of Michelle Rhee, known as u201cAmericau2019s most famous school reformer,
The Coming Grand Bargain: “We’re All Neoliberals Now“
Neoliberal shock doctrine has once again pushed this country further to the right, and it is the American people who will suffer for it.
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Women May Have to Win Back the Right to Vote Less Than 100 Years After Gaining It
A new voter ID law in Texas that declares the only acceptable ID will be a valid photo ID with your legal name on it makes it harder for …
Fukushima – A Global Threat That Requires a Global Response
The problems at Fukushima are unprecedented in human experience and involve a high risk of radiation events larger than any that the global community has ever experienced.
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Growing Clash Between Immigrant Rights Activists and Washington Power Brokers
Community-based immigrant rights organizations outside of Washington, DC, are seeking ways to stop the federal government's huge wave of deportations.
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Corporate Media’s Hidden Wave of Consolidation
A historic wave of corporate media consolidation is changing the landscape of local TV news.
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Female Prisoners’ Babies Shouldn’t Be Sentenced to Life Without Breast Milk
The vast majority of the 10,000 babies born to US prisoners each year are deprived of their mothers - and their mother's milk.
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The Triumph of the Right
The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.
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Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy
Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …
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Stop Treating Capitalists Like They’re Gods
Senator Rand Paul has no idea how capitalism works. That's because, like most Americans, he confuses capitalism with free enterprise.