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Why “Evidence-Based” Education Fails
How did the largest and most aggressive federal education initiative, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), garner bipartisan support under George W. Bush, and how have the central tenets of …
“The Protester” Becomes Time’s Person of the Year, Wants More
Some organizers of the protests of Tahrir Square, Egypt, visiting Occupy Wall Street on October 25, 2011. (Photo: NLNY) Time Magazine Wednesday announced that its 2011 Person …
Food of the Gods
A prominent part of holiday festivities is chocolate, one of our most adored comfort foods. Chocolate is made from the beans (actually the seeds) of the pods that grow …
The Drone That Fell From the Sky
The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, …
Occupy Climate Change: Anjali Appadurai Says, “Get It Done“
Climate talks ended in Durban the way everyone knew they would going in. The richest countries, chiefly the United States, prohibited the materialization of an emergency program to deal …
Occupation 2.0: Occupy Wall Street Challenges Neighboring Church, and Capitalism
Matt Heyd, associate priest and director of faith and action at Trinity, speaks to Malory Butler and Laura Gottesdiener, members of the Occupy movement, in New York, Dec. 15, …
The War on Drug Addicts – and Everyone Else
Needle supplies at the Down East AIDS Network needle exchange in Ellsworth, Maine, Thursday, October 29, 2009. (Photo: Craig Dilger / The New York Times) When Congressional …
DJs Against Climate Change Create Localized Cap-and-Trade
Let's say... you're a DJ. And you're pretty progressive, so you think about things like the carbon footprint you leave, flying between gigs. DJs Against Climate Change has a …
Kenya’s Criminal Assault on Famine-Stricken Somalia
A view of the skyline beyond the northern suburbs of Mogadishu is seen through a bullet hole in the window of a hotel in Yaaqshiid District, where Al Shabaab …
Cop Art: The Rise of the Citizen Satirist
(Image: janie-jones / Casually Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr) “My name only comes up when some a-hole wants to end an argument..., ” Adolf Hitler yells to his …