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Op-Ed
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What A Christmas Story Can Teach Us About Gun Control
The details of the Colorado shooting are still hazy, but one thing remains clear: we desperately need to have a sensible, real discussion about gun control.
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A Modest Proposal, 2014
We need to swallow this planet and everything in it in order to fulfill our human destiny.
Free Market Reflexes in Education
Anyone who has run a business realizes that what matters more is what you do with the workforce you have.
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Charters Get Kids Cubicle-Ready
Rocketeers, as students are called, sit looking at computer screens up to two hours per day, supposedly learning by solving puzzles.
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Corporate Education Reform Won’t Solve the Problems Caused by Poverty
Arne Duncan's latest gaffe highlights the critical inequities of federal education “reforms.” Reversing these trends will require policymakers to acknowledge that education alone cannot create perfect equity of opportunity.
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Despite Glitches, Obamacare Likely to Succeed
Paul Krugman: Anyone counting on Obamacare to collapse is probably making a very bad bet.
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Henry A. Giroux | Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence
When aesthetic and economic criteria displace moral considerations and the search for intense pleasure and profits replaces the search for justice, a police state thrives, says Henry A. Giroux.
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Gunpowder and Blood on Their Cold, Dead Hands
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: "'Thou Shalt Not Kill,' but if you do, hide behind the Second Amendment - made holier and more sacrosanct by the NRA than God's …
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Goodies for the Rich, Pennies for the Poor
Republicans don't give a rat's ass about working-class Americans, but they want you to think they do.
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“Moral Injury”: One Military Veteran Kills Teenager, Another Kills Himself
What is it about ‘moral injury’ that makes humans more prone to both suicide and violence against others?