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What You Can’t Measure With a Test
"'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You …
News in Brief: Senators Lieberman, Conrad Not Seeking Re-Election, and More
Senators Lieberman, Conrad Not Seeking Re-Election
How One Paragraph in a Single Speech Has Skewed the Eisenhower Record
The fiftieth anniversary of Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address and its famous warning about the military-industrial complex presents progressives with a dilemma. They can continue the popular trend of …
Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East
The Tunisian uprising that overthrew the 23-year-old regime of strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had resonances throughout the Middle East. Leaders of countries invested in the region’s authoritarian and …
FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Merger, Mostly
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a conditions-based merger between Comcast and NBC on Tuesday. After months of heated debate over the potential consequences to net neutrality, a 4-to-1 …
Jim Hightower | Republicans Give Government Back to Their Corporate Paymasters
Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country …
Froma Harrop | Whipping Health Care Reform, in a Nice Way
Following the attack against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and bystanders, Republicans put off action to scuttle the Democrats' health care reforms. The GOP House leadership is now back, determined to …
Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
The notion of a battlefield has been expanded, to put it mildly.
The Myth of “American Exceptionalism” Implodes
One aspect of “American exceptionalism” was always economic. US workers, so the story went, enjoyed a rising level of real wages that afforded their families a rising standard of …