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Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle
The growing dominance of a right-wing media forged in a pedagogy of hate has become a crucial element providing numerous platforms for a culture of cruelty.
![President Barack Obama greets a group of teachers, students and school officials before giving an address about strengthening America's education system during a visit to Wright Middle School, November 4, 2009, in Madison. Wisconsin.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/07/GettyImages-92749470-400x300.jpg)
Obama’s View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse
Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”
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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part III)
While President Obama has acted less progressively than candidate Obama spoke, there are immense democratic possibilities within his administration
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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part II)
A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.
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Children of the Recession: Remembering “Manchild in the Promised Land”
The hybridized concept of “manchild” marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.
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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part I)
Those who are yet to become engaged with the work of Henry Giroux are missing out - big time.
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial
The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.
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Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene From the “Other America”
The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.
![Students from William R. Harper High School in Chicago, Illinois, listen as President Barack Obama talks with them about the Emancipation Proclamation hanging in the Oval Office, June 5, 2013.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/04/9317456208_5412037b70_k-400x300.jpg)
Youth and the Myth of a Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama
While “post-racial” may mean less overt racism, the idea that we have moved into a post-racial period in American history is an act of willful denial and ignorance.
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Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence
The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.