Hold Them Accountable: Tenure or No Tenure

Like a good parent conference, let’s have the good news first. I am in 100 percent agreement with James Thindwa about merit pay. What is there about “Wrong!” that businessmen, civic leaders and politicians don’t understand? Children are not widgets, inputs do not equal outputs and the production line is at least 14 years long. Schools are unique among human institutions in that all the constituent pieces–children, teachers, parents,...

BY Eleanor Nicholson

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Digging the Underground Press

The Sixties’ scrappy alternative newspapers were the oxygen that kept the era’s movements going.

BY Richard Greenwald

Israel’s Left in Disarray

Ehud Barak’s split from Labor is not his first blow against the party he led twice.

BY Ralph Seliger

This Can Be Our Moment

Working people are losing when we should be winning. Wall Street, the Koch brothers, greedy CEOs, and the super-rich have seized the economic crisis they created and are exploiting it. They are slashing public budgets; attacking nurses, teachers and firefighters; destroying public employee unions; and cutting healthcare, education, childcare and other critical community programs. Their campaign will intensify as they dedicate themselves to destroying the remaining islands of private-sector union...

BY Stephen Lerner

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Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial

Eating disorders are rampant, and models are dying.

BY Libby Rodenbough

A New Red Dawn

The 1984 film “Red Dawn” fantasized about a group of American teenagers called the Wolverines who valiantly repelled an invasion of foreign communists. For its mix of dystopia and hope, the movie became such an enduring cultural touchstone that U.S. military leaders honored it by naming their 2003 effort to apprehend Saddam Hussein “Operation Red Dawn.” Amid the triumphalism, however, we missed the fact that the invaders started winning – a fact...

BY David Sirota

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America Feeds the Rich

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Until the ACA, reform attempts have been thwarted throughout the last century. more »
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Ikea’s Race to the Bottom

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Bankruptcy Scheme Shafts Coal Miners

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Mad Professors

The adjuncts are at the barricades. more »
BY Rebecca Burns

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The Attack, a tasteful thriller about a Palestinian suicide bombing, will please both sides of the divide. And that's its problem. more »
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America is certainly exceptional, but that isn't necessarily something to be proud of. more »
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Growing Up Under Goebbels

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How China Changed After Tiananmen Square

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The Movement

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The Problem Is Capitalism

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How the Government Targeted Occupy

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This Can Be Our Moment

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Hold Them Accountable: Merit Pay for Congress

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