Posted on September 5, 2008
Tina Cheuk, a teacher in the Bronx, discusses how to write a persuasive essay.
By Jean Forst
New York isn’t the only city that never sleeps. Across America, many educators spend restless nights wondering how to revive urban school systems. We meet some of them in City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row (The New Press, August), the much-anticipated companion to City Kids, City Teachers (1996).
Central themes in the new book include the link between poverty and the achievement gap, and — unsurprisingly — teachers’ struggles… more
In March 2007, Al Gore triumphantly returned to the Senate to testify before the Environmental Committee about the imperative of acting to stop global warming. It was mostly a calm and cordial affair until… more
Globally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people.
That's one of many perverse facts in Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, April 2008, U.S.… more
Combining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media. After 9/11, The Onion stopped its presses for one week. The hiatus allowed the paper to show its respect for the gravity of what had happened in lower Manhattan. But it also enabled its… more
-grist ran a great blog during the RNC and it's worth it to visit and look back through the past week's entries. Here's a highlight:
They... more
File under "Law in America is dead."
(via TPM Muckraker):
Even if she refuses to testify voluntarily, Sarah Palin will definitely not be subpoenaed as part... more
Paul Krugman on the fallacies that ran rampant during the 2008 RNC:
On Tuesday, He Who Must Not Be Named — Mitt Romney mentioned him just... more
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Viewpoint
 By Robert Parry
The Republican Party, which has defined modern-day negative politics, was back at it again this week, bashing Barack Obama and the news media in an… more
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By Jonathan Rosenbaum
I can’t quite follow the offscreen sound bites preceding the main title of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s new documentary, Trouble the Water.… more
McCain’s record on veterans’ issues is shocking and awful By Cliff Schecter
At a town hall meeting in Denver in early July, a Vietnam veteran asked presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) why he had… more
By Pete Redington
It’s easy to see sports today as nothing more than an escapist distraction, an uncomfortable marriage of commercialism and entertainment. But progressive journalist… more
Many Clinton supporters in Denver swallow doubts, support Obama By Jacob Wheeler
DENVER — Just about everyone inside the Pepsi Center last night for Day Two of the Democratic National Convention had reason to smile.… more
By Jacob Wheeler
DENVER — “This is not street theater! This is real!” shouted a man wearing a baseball cap into a microphone as approximately 20… more
Injustice persists at copper mine that sparked Mexican Revolution By Kari Lydersen and Jessica Pupovac
CANANEA, Mexico — Jesus Verdugo was born in this hot, dry mining town nestled in the mountains of Sonora, about 25 miles south… more
By David Moberg
After Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) secured his party’s nomination in June, his tightly knit campaign message began to fray at the edges. Critics… more
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