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The Koch Brothers’ Right-Wing Trojan Horse: Institutes for “Well-Being“
The Koch brothers are funding “well-being” institutes on college campuses to brainwash students.
Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward
The NLRB's ruling that teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are workers and are legally protected is historic.
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Disrupting the Myth of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Age of Trump, Sanders and Clinton
The presidency of FDR reveals some policy positions that capture those of more recent candidates.
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Where Has All the Money for Our Schools Gone?
New government spending data could reveal how tax breaks for big businesses leave K-12 school funding out to dry.
Education Reformers’ Core Beliefs Are Objectionable
The US's corporate education reform movement has been a marketing success.
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Stop Being Partisan on So-Called “Free Trade“
So-called “free trade” isn't the way of the future; it's a broken model that global elites have pushed since Ronald Reagan.
Lessons in Activism: Middle School Students Advocate for Syrian Refugees
Nassim Zerriffi's activism campaign class teaches middle schoolers in Manhattan how democracy really works.
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Who Would Trayvon Have Been? Becoming a Black Man in the United States
I asked myself: How did you learn to be a Black man?
Taking on the United States’ Prison Profiteers
Should we let ‘entrepreneurs’ get rich locking up kids?
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Indigenous Villages in Honduras Overcome Hunger at Schools
In Honduras a program at local schools is improving nutrition in indigenous communities.