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Democracy
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Imagine Democracy
“We the People.” How many of us have really thought through the implications of these three words?
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US Higher Education: The New “Treasure Island” for Investors
Education “reform” is threatening to gut and loot US universities, while the fact that American democracy has been devolving into oligarchy is not a serious enough matter to address …
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To Gov. Christie, From the Teacher He Screamed at
“I wanted to know why Gov. Chris Christie portrays New Jersey public schools as failure factories. Apparently that question struck a nerve.”
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Terry McCauliffe and Bill De Blasio Defeat Republican Opponents, and More
Terry McCauliffe and Bill DeBlasio defeated their Republican opponents in Virginia and New York, and more.
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Detroit Will be Democracy’s Decisive Battle
Detroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating u201cthe template for direct corporate rule.u201d
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Monterey Peninsula Fights For-Profit American Water for Public Control
In communities across the country, people are deciding that water is just too precious to subject to the profit motive.
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Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
To the extent that universities do not fight to be safely ensconced at the
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19 Young Activists Changing America
These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.
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Chris Hedges | Our Invisible Revolution
Until Americans stop putting their faith in systems that only harm them, we will continue to suffer from the pressures of capitalism.
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How America Could Be the Happiest Country on Earth
And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark!