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Occupy the Department of Education: Just What Education Activists Were Looking for
On behalf of the people of New York City, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) assembled on the evening of February 9. On behalf of the people of New …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: January Was a Good Month for SuperPACs, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Chicago Teachers Speak Out About “Reform” Effects
“We worry more about our students now more than we ever have in the past.” Since the latest Chicago Public Schools “reform” efforts began in 1996, Orr …
With Mass Child Freezing Deaths, Proof of Mass Starvation, US in Violation of Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan
A little known aspect of World War II history is that immediately after the end of major hostilities, as Europe lay in ruins, millions of Germans in Ally-occupied Germany …
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Why Commercial Loans Remain Tough to Get
For 22 years Joy Lang of Jerry’s Flowers in Sister Bay counted on Baylake Bank for her business banking. Each spring she would make the short walk down the …
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Five Key Facts About the Obama Administration’s Corporate Tax Overhaul
The Obama administration today is unveiling an overhaul of the corporate tax code, proposing to lower the top corporate income tax rate while eliminating a host of deductions and …
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control – and Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About It 100 Years From Now
What's happening in Congress this week, as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) bars any women from testifying at his so-called “religious freedom” hearings, is so familiar and expected that it …
Oil: In Perpetuity No More
An offshore drilling rig. (Photo: L.C.Nøttaasen) Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clothing, electronics, …
How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
A truck with a black flag, which is displayed in protest of moves by the Greek government to opening the trucking profession, on a road in Elefsina, Greece, on …
Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum
It is impossible to separate what we do in the classroom from the economic and political conditions that shape our work.