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The 4- to 14-Year-Old Window: Turning Children Into Evangelists in Public Schools
Thy Neighbor’s Children: The 4/14 Window by Katherine Stewart Excerpted from “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” PublicAffairs, …
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Criminalizing Immigrants for Profit
(Image: Beacon Press) In 1947, after reading a newspaper article about the crash of a plane carrying a group of Mexican contract workers back to the border, …
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Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: skyfaller, coffeego 1, 2) Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme …
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Best-Selling Author Thomas Frank Reads From His New Book, “Pity the Billionaire”
Thomas Frank, formerly an opinion writer for The Washington Post as well as a current monthly columnist for Harper's, is the founder of the journal The Baffler and the …
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Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
(Image: Dutton Adult) Prologue In the moments before she became a widow, veiled in blood, Sharon Lenox was happier than she’d been in ages. Her fifty-four-year-old husband, …
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“Sister Citizen”: Black Women in a Crooked Room
(Image: Yale University Press) Zora Neale Hurston writes Janie Mae Crawford as an irrepressibly independent woman. Janie leaves the economic security of her emotionally deadening first marriage …
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Community, Technology Can Alleviate Loneliness, Invisibility of Elders and Their Caretakers
For the near term, the adult sons and daughters of aging parents hold an important key that will determine whether any new model of eldercare is embraced widely in …
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EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want (2)
White pine trees along a trail at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center. (Photo: Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) Seeing this bumper sticker on my …
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State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
(Courtesy: Palgrave-Macmillan)
Restoring Government, of, by and for the People
Rescinding corporate personhood is the first step toward a larger vision of reclaiming and reinvigorating democracy around the world.