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Review of Henry Giroux’s: Youth in a Suspect Society
The book is, above all else, an attempt to interrogate the increasingly hostile future our society is preparing, with no sense of shame or irony, for its next tenants …
Truthout Becomes First Online-Only News Site to Unionize
Truthout held the country's first “virtual card check” on August 27, 2009.
Uncivil Discourse
No one's ever conquered Washington politics by constantly saying “pretty please” to the guys trying to cut your throat.
Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle
The growing dominance of a right-wing media forged in a pedagogy of hate has become a crucial element providing numerous platforms for a culture of cruelty.
Obama’s View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse
Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”
Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part III)
While President Obama has acted less progressively than candidate Obama spoke, there are immense democratic possibilities within his administration
Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part II)
A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.
Children of the Recession: Remembering “Manchild in the Promised Land”
The hybridized concept of “manchild” marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.
Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part I)
Those who are yet to become engaged with the work of Henry Giroux are missing out - big time.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial
The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.