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![Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies during her nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, July 13, 2009.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/06/shutterstock_61982716-400x300.jpg)
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.
![Child beauty pageant tiara](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/05/shutterstock_218315221c-400x300.jpg)
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.
![Statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/04/7927566712_def0b67f77_o-e1529596534199-400x300.jpg)
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.
![Child watching TV](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/04/shutterstock_733157317c-400x300.jpg)
Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children's culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.
![Youth's hand grasping fence](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/02/shutterstock_1075721525-400x300.jpg)
Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama’s Stimulus Plan
Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.
![President George W. Bush makes a statement at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2007.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/01/2019_0319-george-w-bush-400x300.jpg)
The Greatest Greatness of George W. Bush
George W. Bush's greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what he has done.
![President Barack Obama meets with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sept. 15, 2011.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/12/6218344149_199aee5463_o-400x300.jpg)
Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?
![President-elect Barack Obama and Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan, right, talk with students at the Dodge Renaissance Academy Tuesday, December 16, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. The two met with the students after Obama introduced Duncan as his choice for education secretary.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/12/GettyImages-112887784-400x300.jpg)
Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.
![US soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division search for a missing soldier in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan July 19, 2009.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/12/3772923560_08c30d3290_o-400x300.jpg)
War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama
War is now defined almost exclusively as a punitive and militaristic process.