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Why Charter Schools Are Foolish Investments for States Facing Economic Challenges
South Carolina's children deserve data-based and lean school reform policy, and not advocacy-based experiments.
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Realizations From Killing and Eating an Animal We Raised Ourselves
The way we used to source our meat had the same desensitizing effect that many people in our society have developed towards violence.
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Dirtiest Oil: Why In Situ Bitumen Extraction Is Dangerous for Canada, the World
The Primrose leak contamination of the lands of the Beaver Lake Cree and Cold Lake First Nations demonstrates the dangers of in situ bitumen extraction and Canada's abusive energy …
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Eugene Robinson | Edward Snowden, Person of the Year
Eugene Robinson: There are really just two possible choices for person of the year. I want to say Pope Francis, but I've got to go with Edward Snowden.
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American Versailles
I first saw Washington, DC in 1974. I was astonished with the Greek vision of architecture on Capitol Hill.
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
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William Rivers Pitt | Laney’s Christmas
William Rivers Pitt: "Despite the grotesque perversion of simple morality that has so gruesomely twisted the fabric of life in America, we will someday prevail, and find a better …
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Ninety-Nine Years Ago: A Pause in the War on Christmas
Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Police State
Hyperbole? You decide if this is how you believe the police should behave when citizens are exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
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Is MoveOn Less Progressive Than the New York Times Editorial Board?
The same day that the Times editorialized to excoriate President Obama for his latest betrayal of civil liberties, MoveOn sent out a huge email blast sucking up to Obama.