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It's the Poverty, Stupid
The education reform debate is misdirected.
September 2010
COVER STORY
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Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushes Chicago's ineffective reforms on America's children.
Features
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Inside the World’s Deadliest City
Juarez’s anarchy cannot be separated from American policy and addictions, says journalist Charles Bowden
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Barely a Teenager and Marked for Life
Federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good
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Tribes in Kenya Wage Water War
In the first skirmishes due to global warming, nomads fight for survival.
Act Locally
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BP: Dispersing Oil or Criticism?
Toxic chemicals helped the oil giant save face, but their health and environmental impacts are unknown
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Alice Waters' Chez Sludge
The world-famous advocate of local, organic food now advocates controversial "organic biosolids compost" for gardens.
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Singapore’s Useful Peasants
As they power a robust recovery, the city-state's foreign-born workers face a growing backlash.
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Dear ITT Ideologist: Interstate Warfare and the Teahadists
Dear ITT Ideologist, I am a leading candidate for governor of Connecticut. I need an issue novel enough... more
culture
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Culture
Once Upon a Time, in America…
The right has one fundamental advantage over its opponents: storytelling.
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books
A Bronx School Tale
A new book shows how grassroots community organizing and persistence turned around one of the country's most corrupt school districts.
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Culture
Jailed Hikers: the Untold Story
The three Americans Iran has charged with espionage are not who you think they are.
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Culture
'There is Power in a Union'
The past, present and future of America’s labor movement
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‘The Manchurian President’: Chicago’s Commie Liberal Puppet
The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well.
Columnists
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Views
Why WikiLeaks Won't Stop the War
The War Logs--a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet... more
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Editorial
Stand Up for Elizabeth Warren
The sacking of Shirley Sherrod is emblematic of the mess the Democrats and President Barack Obama have gotten... more
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The Third Coast
The New Black Publicity Party
Right-wing media catapulted the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) into national infamy this summer with an exaggerated emphasis... more
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Views
A Modest Proposal for Teacher Tenure Reform
Lifetime employment should be earned.
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Back Talk
The Teachers Are All Right
My brother is a high school teacher. He is not famous, and certainly not rich. After he leaves... more
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The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards
The triumph of purist ideology over compassion and science means suffering and death for organic farm animals across... more
