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How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
Business school students are taught to extract resources instead of creating value.
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“We Don’t Have the Money” Is a Filthy Lie
Light up the darkness.
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“Bernie-mentum” Nudges Clinton Forward on Debt-Free College
The persistence of the political coalition around Bernie Sanders has nudged Hillary Clinton toward a more progressive position on student debt.
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Whose Century Is It? Life on an Increasingly Improbable Planet
Perhaps this is no longer really the “American century” at all.
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The Case for a Child-Centered Energy and Climate Policy
Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide is the root cause of much of children's ill health children.
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The Senate’s Popular Sentencing Reform Bill Would Sort Prisoners by “Risk Score“
Federal prisoners would be scored according to their risk of recidivating. Those who got high scores would be ineligible for sentence reduction.
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Will Trump and Charter Schools Be Another Scam? Just Look at Pal Carl Icahn’s School “Charity“
Self-serving deals, like Icahn's, are not an outlier in the scandal-plagued charter school industry.
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What’s Really Happening to the Humanities Under Neoliberalism?
An emphasis on “employable” academic majors is resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy in which learning is devalued.
The Emancipation of the Minority Academic
There was a Black woman on my computer screen, not slinking into the back of a college classroom, but with her shoulders squared for millions of viewers.
Goldman Sachs Just Ate Denmark for Breakfast
Goldman Sachs stands to make a huge profit from the purchase of 19% of Denmark's national energy company, Dong Energy.