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Unleashing Empathy: How Teachers Transform Classrooms With Emotional Learning
Empathy has long been seen as key to effective teaching.
Va Por Kuy: Deadly “Non-Lethal” Weapons and Disappearance Under Peña-Nieto’s Reign
To put Kuy's death in context it's important to examine why thousands of people took to the streets to protest his inauguration.
Revolution Against Corporate Education Targets Achilles Heel
Defeating corporate education reform here in the US could save millions of young, critically thinking minds around the world.
Wisconsin Had Best-Run Elections in US, So Republicans Fixed ‘Em
Wisconsin has high rates of participation, short lines and no problem with fraud, yet Republicans have remained uniquely fixated on enacting sweeping changes to how the state's elections are …
A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
If we measure inequality with a yardstick that only wonks can decipher, weu2019ll end up with a society too confused to do anything meaningful about it.
The Anti-Empire Report #127
One would think that the absence in Russia of communism, of socialism, of the basic threat or challenge to the capitalist system, would be sufficient to write finis to …
The Certain Future of Swarm Intelligence
The U.S. military wants to develop a drone army that can leverage swarm intelligence. One human operator that can manage an army.
Natural Gas “Addiction”: Massachusetts Cities Fight Plants, Thwarting of Alternative Power
Activists in Brockton and Salem Massachusetts are fighting new natural gas infrastructures that will endanger both towns' citizens while delaying - not transitioning - any move to renewable energy.
Politicians Are Beginning to Realize Voter Suppression Is a Bad Idea
While candidates and political parties prepare their latest slogans for midterm elections, current elected officials have been spending a great deal of time focusing on voter access.
America’s Homegrown Terror
Our national security vulnerabilities are not just terrorist cells in faraway lands. The United States plays host to thousands of nuclear weapons, toxic chemical dumps, radioactive waste storage facilities, …