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Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The …
The Fashion Industry’s Perfect Storm: Collapsing Workers and Hyperactive Buyers
Sina Phin, a garment worker, right, ironing shirts at the New Island factory in outlying Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in April 2005. (Photo: Michael Nagle / The New York Times) …
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The Assault on Public Education
Timothy White, chancellor at University of California, Riverside, at his office in Riverside, California, July 5, 2011. Sharp tuition increases, coupled with cutbacks in services, threaten to erode a …
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Romney’s Victories in Maryland, DC and Wisconsin
(Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)Washington - Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, sweeping three more primaries and setting the stage for what could …
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Consumer Groups: Verizon’s Cozy Deal With Cable Would Create a Wireless Duopoly
Daniel Mead, the chief executive of Verizon Wireless, speaks in New York, January 11, 2011. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times)Verizon Wireless and America's biggest cable companies …
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Pregnancy, Sexual Congress and the (In)Visibility of Men
Now you see men. Now you don't. When it comes to being an expert on birth control and women's sexuality, men are apparently the experts, the go-to guys. Men …
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In Haiti, Global Failures on a Cholera Epidemic
Mirebalais, Haiti - Jean Salgadeau Pelette, handsome when medicated and groomed, often roamed this central Haitian town in a disheveled state, wild-eyed and naked. He was a familiar figure …
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Inside a Military Court Hearing: How the Government Is Railroading Bradley Manning
(Photo: Bradley Manning Support Network / Flickr)The WikiLeaks/Bradley Manning debacle provides us with a startling example of how brutally the US government treats those brave enough to provide even …
Israeli Experts Mum on Iran Attack to Support Bibi’s Bluff
Tel Aviv - A striking feature of the Israeli political landscape in recent months has been the absence of a serious debate on the issue of the threat of …
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Green Cards for Clean Energy Job Creators
A federal government program that gives foreign investors green cards to invest in business ventures in the United States is being tapped to spur the Texas clean economy. At …