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Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The …
Will Pumping More American Oil Lower Gas Price?
TRANSCRIPT: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. As the 2012 elections draw ever nearer, the rhetoric about the cost …
The Fashion Industry’s Perfect Storm: Collapsing Workers and Hyperactive Buyers
Sina Phin, a garment worker, right, ironing shirts at the New Island factory in outlying Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in April 2005. (Photo: Michael Nagle / The New York Times) …
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Health Care Glossary
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The Assault on Public Education
Timothy White, chancellor at University of California, Riverside, at his office in Riverside, California, July 5, 2011. Sharp tuition increases, coupled with cutbacks in services, threaten to erode a …
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Know Your Rights
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Romney’s Victories in Maryland, DC and Wisconsin
(Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)Washington - Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, sweeping three more primaries and setting the stage for what could …
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Consumer Groups: Verizon’s Cozy Deal With Cable Would Create a Wireless Duopoly
Daniel Mead, the chief executive of Verizon Wireless, speaks in New York, January 11, 2011. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times)Verizon Wireless and America's biggest cable companies …
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Pregnancy, Sexual Congress and the (In)Visibility of Men
Now you see men. Now you don't. When it comes to being an expert on birth control and women's sexuality, men are apparently the experts, the go-to guys. Men …
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In World’s Richest Country, the Uninsured Wait in Line Overnight for a Chance at Health Care
Stan Brock never expected to see adults and children shivering in line in the middle of the night, hoping to get free medical, dental and vision care in the …