All Views Articles for 2014-04-14
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Jay Rosen Pulitzer Does Not Fully Express Power of Collaborative Snowden Reporting The Washington Post and the Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize for public service today. There’s no prize for the network of individuals and institutions that brought the surveillance story forward. As... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch New Report Rebukes Central Feature of 'Race to the Top' The central feature of the Obama administration's $5 billion "Race to the Top" program was sharply refuted last week by the American Statistical Association , one of the nation's leading scholarly... Read more |
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Joe Romm Climate Panel Stunner: Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only If We Act Now The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just issued its third of four planned reports. This one is on “mitigation” — “human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the... Read more |
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Tracie McMillan Organic Food: It's Not Just for Yuppies Anymore Walmart's new organic products line can debunk the myth that the poor choose Nikes over fancy grapes. Because they don't Read more |
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Anthony Cody Teachers: A Call to Battle for Reluctant Warriors We just wanted to teach. When I was drawn to teach in Oakland, I saw a chance to give students the chance to do hands-on experiments, to answer their own questions, and explore the natural world. On... Read more |
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Kaisa Kosonen, Daniel Mittler Dear Fossil Fuel Industry - It's Over It's been a long week here in Berlin, with experts and government officials finalising urgently awaited conclusions from the United Nations climate change panel about the solutions to climate change... Read more |
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Nick Turse Our Big, Fat, Not-So-Secret War in Africa U.S. Officials Talk Candidly (Just Not to Reporters) about bases, winning hearts and minds, and the “War” in Africa Read more |
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Hoda Baraka IPCC: Divest from Fossil Fuels for a Safe Climate “It does not cost the world to save the planet” — Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III The Working Group III contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Four Eras of Slavery, for the Benefit of Corporations David Horowitz , founder of an organization called the "Freedom Center," argued that blacks should not be paid reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors. Among his reasons are that: There Is... Read more |