David Sirota on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Will We Choose a Chinese Future?

2012-02-17T08:57:00+00:00

For the last two decades, we’ve heard many myths purporting to explain the loss of American manufacturing jobs.

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Embracing ‘Enough’

2012-02-10T08:38:00+00:00

Of all the no-no’s in contemporary America—and there are many—none has proven more taboo than the ancient doctrine of dayenu.

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When It Comes to Education Technology, Trust—but Verify

2012-02-03T06:48:00+00:00

A school’s wager on computer technology as a pedagogic panacea is often just that: a blind gamble, and one that evidence shows is hardly safe.

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The Economic Normalcy Bias

2012-01-27T07:46:00+00:00

Many who are faced with imminent disaster instantly convince themselves that everything is normal and that they don’t have to modify their behavior.

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Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

2012-01-20T09:14:00+00:00

The Texan’s candidacy is showing that the conventional definition of intolerable bigotry is disturbingly narrow—and embarrassingly selective.

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Education Reformers Send Their Kids to Private School

2012-01-13T10:00:00+00:00

There really are “Two Americas,” as the saying goes—and that’s no accident. Nowhere is this more obvious than in education—a realm in which this elite physically separates itself from us mere serfs.

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10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

2012-01-06T01:31:00+00:00

Here are 10 current words and phrases that my kid may never know because they might end up as relics of a lost vernacular, starting with “civil liberties.”

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’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

2011-12-22T22:39:00+00:00

It’s a holiday tradition. Every December, with media charlatans turning the key, the fake outrage machine rumbles back to life.

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