All Views Articles for 2013-05-20
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Allison Kilkenny The Chicago Board of Education Votes This Week Whether to Shut Down Fifty-four Schools Chicago is braced for a critical vote by the Board of Education this week to determine if fifty-four schools will be closed. Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship Enabling Greed Makes US Sick At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, we should pause to... Read more |
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Jane Mayer A Word from Our Sponsor: Public Television’s Attempts to Placate David Koch Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Obama DOJ Formally Accuses Journalist in Leak Case of Committing Crimes Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Needed: A Mass Movement for College Debt Relief Austerity has failed in Europe, where the European Union just racked up 18 months of negative growth with no end in sight. It is failing in the United States, where this year's deficit reductions... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Rise Up or Die Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Globalization of Hypocrisy The damage caused by the relentless corporate drive for profits has become more clear in recent years. In the most important areas of American life, devastating changes have occurred: Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit What Comes After Hope Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued Read more |