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Do Harm, Look the Other Way: The New Hippocratic Oath?
Save the Children just issued a report about newborns in Syria starving to death.
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Turning Suspensions Into a Last Resort
Lyons serves around 500 students who are overwhelmingly poor and 90 percent African American and Hispanic. Its switch to restorative justice methods is one of the main reasons the …
Crying for Sandy Hook, Arming Israel: America’s Descent into Madness
Those who commit the mass murder of children don't get to mourn the mass murder of children.
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What Happens to a Society When It Turns Against Many of Its Children and Imprisons Them?
If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.
CAFTA Kids: Teamsters Legislative Representative Links Trade Deal to Children Seeking Refugee from Violence
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa predicted CAFTA would screw workers in the US and in Central America, just as NAFTA did in the US and Mexico. He was right.
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Federal Investigators Crack Down on Two Virginia Schools’ Use of Restraints
Investigators found that children were being regularly pinned down or isolated and that their education was suffering as a result.
Irish Teenager Among Prisoners Set for Egypt Mass Trial
That the Egyptian government has arrested and tortured children, in contravention of its own and international law, is horrifying enough.
How We Scapegoat Children From Gaza to the US-Mexico Borderlands
From Gaza to the US-Mexico border, cruelty and killing of children is allowed through the poisoning of political thought.
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Confronting Corruption and Cholesterol in Congress
We have elected leaders who don't dare cross the mob that could oust them from power, whether it's the National Rifle Association or the National Restaurant Association.
Brutal Treatment of Kids at Rikers Island Jail “Inspired by Lord of the Flies,” Says DOJ
Adolescents at the New York City jail are routinely subjected to physical abuse at the hands of guards and other inmates.