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Are Charter Schools Really Innovative?
Peter Ruddy Wallace was the speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives years ago when charter-school legislation was adopted. He saw charters as incubators of innovation and experimentation.
Deficit Fraud Rand Paul On Extending Bush’s Tax Cuts: “I’m Not Seeing It As A Cost“
Last month, a spokesman for Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul said that, if elected, Paul “will vote against and filibuster any unbalanced budget proposal in the Senate.” Not …
Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers
As the 2010-2011 school year grumbled to a start - and millions of public school students settled into overcrowded, underfunded, under-resourced classrooms - I sat down in Chicago with …
Who Pays To Deny Climate Change
Brussels - European organisations dedicated to challenging scientific warnings about the gravity of climate change have refused to reveal who finances their work. Although transparency rules in the U.S. …
Will Meg Whitman’s Undocumented Housekeeper Hurt Her With Latino Voters?
It has not been a good week for Meg Whitman. The Republican candidate for governor of California is still having to answer questions about when she and her husband …
Lessons On Climate Change From the Pakistan Floods
There are many lessons from the recent floods in Pakistan. Here are just a few. First, when natural calamity strikes, it can be– and nowadays more often than not …
LIVE: One Nation Working Together in Washington, DC
We're proud to provide live coverage of the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, DC from our friends at Free Speech TV (FSTV). Hundreds of thousands of activists …
Westboro Baptist’s Funeral Protests Put Free Speech to Test
WASHINGTON — The most vexing free speech fight in years confronts the Supreme Court on Wednesday, pitting a loud-mouthed, anti-gay Kansas church against a grieving Pennsylvania father. The father, …
Kagan Won’t Help Supreme Court Decide Many of This Term’s Cases
WASHINGTON — The newest Supreme Court justice will be missing in action during much of the court's historic term that starts Monday, Oct. 4. From video violence to immigration …
State of Siege in Ecuador as Rafael Correa Takes on Rebel Police
The streets of Ecuador remained quiet today, a day after a dramatic standoff left President Rafael Correa holed up in a hospital for 12 hours and claiming that a …