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Op-Ed
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Rent or Tuition? The Growing Student Dilemma
Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students.
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Anti-Politics and the 1%
Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …
Fighting Bad Science in the Senate
The Senate hearing for the Women's Health Protection Act shows just how important it is for women's health advocates to push for the facts.
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Doomsday Trigger for Megadrought?
One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse.
Global Ecosystem Collapse
Either humanity immediately comes together to embrace universal liberty, ecology, fairness and justice, or alone we each face a violent, gut wrenching end of being.
Bungling Toward Oblivion: A Letter to My Friends in Russia
Empathy is a human quality that is best engendered through a personal acquaintance with individuals.
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Waters is Right
The Israeli government makes no pretense of observing the most basic protocols of war: minimizing civilian deaths, proportionality, avoiding the targeting of third party non-combatants like the UN.
A Teacher Remembers His Class Before the Age of Facebook
Thirty-five human beings sharing the same space met in real time and bonded around a common experience. But, that world in education is slowly slipping away.
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Recruiting to Kill in Gaza
Western involvement in the war on the Palestinian people is indeed going beyond the usual and known support of funds, military technology and economic aid, to actual participation in …
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Nasty Neural Habits: Take Two Positive Thoughts and Call Me in the Morning
Human beings are amazingly resilient, and that resilience is part of our core being.