US Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, then Conservatives Worked to Demolish Public Education
How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
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Here’s How Money Is Destroying the World Through Addiction
See this problem for what it is: A loosely organized group of global addicts getting together to figure out ways to enrich each other financially.
Read more...Social Multipliers in Crime: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Criminal Behaviour
An example of how the peer environment influences crime levels.
Read more...New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Resigns Due to Sexual Assault Allegations, After Getting Away With Selling Out Homeowners
Good riddance to Eric Schneiderman.
Read more...200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding History
How Marx recognized the economic forces that give rise to and perpetuate ideologies that promote injustice.
Read more...Corbyn’s Critics: Time to Come Round
After six shocks in three years, can Corbyn sceptics face the party’s new reality?
Read more...How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
Read more...The Revenge Against the Commons
Why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968 is prepared to kill for Macron to roust a 4000 acre commons.
Read more...Why Capitalism Creates Racism
Why separating racism from capitalist exploitation of low-wage workers isn’t as tidy as the Democratic Party would have you believe.
Read more...Exclusive: Calls To Police Skyrocketed After Hiring of Philly Starbucks Manager Who Was on Duty During #Starbuckswhileblack Arrests
The Starbucks manager who called for police to arrest two black men in her store had a history of frequent requests for police help.
Read more...Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
Why American work norms are largely counterproductive.
Read more...Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Why the way economists think about wealth is too narrow, and how to start to remedy that.
Read more...Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
Read more...J.D. Alt: Framing the Progressive Agenda
Thoughts on how to present progressive policies without triggering “you mean tax and spend” reflexes.
Read more...How the US Military Is Failing
A critical, but maybe not critical enough, look at the relationship of the US military to its society and ostensible goals.
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