Truthout
Op-Ed
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Arne Duncan Has Labeled My School – and Every School in Washington State – a Failure; Cue the Revolt
The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington.
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As Oklahoma Botches an Execution, It’s Time to Talk About Ending the Death Penalty
Isn't it time we take the instance of yet another failed execution attempt to discuss not how to execute people better, but how to get rid of the death …
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Reviving Government Of, By, and For the People
The McCutcheon ruling just made our bad campaign finance system worse.
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This Land Isn’t Your Land, This Land Is Their Land: An Empire in Decline (City by City, Town by Town)
Peter Van Buren has been traveling the ever-expanding, ever-rustier Rust Belt taking the temperature of a land with a significant fever. Here's his account.
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The Serendipity of Social Media – Sevim Irmak’s Fight for Her Country
In which the author of “Affluenza” learns the power of social media to help him understand the world beyond his borders, specifically the strange case of neo-liberalizing and fundamentalizing …
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The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the 21st Century
The 21st century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
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Taking Back Cinco
Across the country, a new consciousness is setting in. It is time to take back Cinco.
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May Day: While the World Celebrates Workers, the US Celebrates “Loyalty” and “Law“
Not only is May Day not recognized here, but it was rejected with extreme prejudice by the US government, on the grounds that it had communist overtones and was …
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David vs. Goliath: The Nuclear Zero Lawsuits
Forty-four years later, with no negotiations in sight, the world has become a more dangerous place with stockpiles of more than 17,000 nuclear weapons.
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Phony Justice in a Phony War
An FBI interrogation of a member of the defense team for one of the accused at Guantanamo is another blow to the integrity of a military commission.