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Free Trade Lobby Brigade Deployed at DNC
The same kinds of corporations are involved with different configurations and with different names that have the same mission: to hijack the name of free trade to impose all …
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Unhappy Anniversary: Republicans Have Blocked the American Jobs Act for One Year
One year after the failed American Jobs Act was first proposed employment is one of the most important issues in the election.
The Apocalypse of the Teacher (The Book of the Great Divide)
J.H. Marten's masterful prose tells the story of teachers in this country, and the great divide that threatens education as a whole.
Outing ACT: Test-and-Punish Doesn’t Educate, but It’s Profitable for Testing Companies
The testing fox is in the education henhouse and it is having a wonderful time. Take the mandated high-stakes tests, fall below an arbitrary cut score set by a …
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“It’s Arithmetic”: The Best of Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, in One Infographic
Just in case you missed one of the most important points of Clinton's DNC speech on Wednesday, this infographic explains it all.
You Will Be Assimilated
Barry Eisler illustrates the warning signs of a journalist's demise, the things that let readers know when those we look to for the truth have been compromised.
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The Emancipation of the Unemployed
In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation ended the depraved institution of American slavery. Centuries later there is a new form of slavery that affects the entire country.
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Merchant of Climate Doubt Hosts the Hottest Parties at the DNC
The planet is burning, but the hot parties have only just begun here in Charlotte at the DNC.
Fact-Checking the Democratic Party Platform
In the key areas of bank regulation, law enforcement, labor, trade policy, climate change and civil liberties, there is more than a little difference between the Obama administration's record …
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In the Shadow of the DNC, Organizers Call for a Unionized South
Organized under the banner Southern Workers Assembly, the group seeks to begin a wide-scale effort to organize labor in the South.