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By Joe Conason
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Shutterstock photo of "school sucks."
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By Frank Pepper —
My 13-year-old son was recently suspended from his private school twice in less than a month.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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By Joe Conason — The difference between a natural disaster and a disaster caused by politicians is that the latter will almost always hit the poor and the obscure most heavily.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We interrupt this highly partisan and ideological moment with some contrarian news: President Obama is not the only politician who thinks that expanding access to pre-Kindergarten is a good investment.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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Nils Geylen (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Metapneumovirus is putting as many American children under the age of 5 in the hospital as influenza, researchers have found.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Larry Wright, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 25, 2012
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Dec 25, 2012
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By Robert Reich — America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect them from deranged people wielding semiautomatic guns, but we’re also not protecting them from poverty.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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By Bill Blum — As a result of a grotesque confluence of cultural iconography celebrating the virtues of an armed citizenry, political cowardice in the face of pro-gun lobbies like the NRA, and a judiciary that has redefined the meaning of the Second Amendment, we have become a nation bereft of effective gun control, reduced to waiting for the next firearm fueled massacre.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Juan Cole — Why do U.S. cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing them from happening again through banning semiautomatic weapons?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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AP/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks
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By Marian Wright Edelman —
Once again we are faced with unspeakable horror from gun violence and once again we are reminded that there is no safe harbor for our children. How young do the victims have to be and how many children need to die before we stop the proliferation of guns in our nation and the killing of innocents?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Signe Wilkinson —
Posted on Dec 8, 2012
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By Robert Reich — If we had a functional government America would address three “cliffs” posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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U.N. investigators say Syrian troops are armoring their vehicles with children in order to deter enemy fire. A report on children and armed conflict also says Syrian authorities are torturing children and the opposition may be recruiting minors.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 28, 2012
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FreedomHouse (CC BY 2.0)
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The United Nations has confirmed that 32 children and nearly twice as many adults were killed after Syrian government forces attacked the western town of Houla. Locals are furious that U.N. observers, deployed to monitor a cease-fire between officials and the opposition, did not intervene.
Posted on May 26, 2012
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Kim G. Appels (CC-BY)
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By Chip Ward, TomDispatch —
There were plenty of signs we took a wrong turn but we kept on going. Dumb, stubborn, blind: Who knows why we couldn’t stop? Greed maybe—powerful corporations we couldn’t overcome. It won’t matter much to you who is to blame. You’ll be too busy coping in the diminished world we bequeath you.
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AP / Damian Dovarganes
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In the wake of two independent molestation scandals at one of L.A.’s poorest elementary schools, school district Superintendent John Deasy announced that he is temporarily replacing the entire staff—teachers, administrators, janitors—while he tries to make sense of the situation. (more)
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Brad Montgomery (CC-BY)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has suggested steep cuts to social programs that benefit parents and children on the verge of homelessness. Brown is hoping to close a $9.2 billion hole in the budget (and drum up support for tax hikes) by asking the state’s most desperate families to do without.
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Schröder+Schömbs (CC-BY-ND)
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According to journalism prof Ted Gup, the prevalence of the word “like” in youth-speak is evidence that teachers have “condemned children to a common cluster of mediocrity.” But as linguist Geoffrey Nunberg pointed out a decade ago, “like” isn’t a tic or filler, it’s “a word with a point of view.” (more)
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ruminatrix (CC-BY)
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It seems the schoolyard is more boring than ever. Researchers found that lackluster playground designs brought to us by strict equipment safety rules and low budgets have made outdoor playtime unappealing to toddlers at child care centers around the nation. The need to meet stringent academic requirements is leading schools to underemphasize physical play too.
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U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Michael Holzworth
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By Barry Lando — Better to let Iraq blow itself apart than inflict the kind of policies that have, as most commentators refuse to acknowledge, plagued the country’s entire, sorry history.
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Art by Yayoi Kusama, images from Colossal
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In this simple, delightful installation, thousands of kids armed with thousands of colorful stickers turned a completely white room into a work of art.
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This just in: The Muppets are brainwashing your children with liberal, anti-corporate messages, according to this astute analysis conducted by objective reporter Eric Bolling of Fox News’ “Follow the Money” propagandafest business broadcast. “Where are we, communist China?” he wonders.
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Nov 13, 2011
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By Eugene Robinson — Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno said, “I did what I was supposed to.” In fact, nobody at Penn State did what basic human decency requires—and as a result, according to prosecutors, an alleged sexual predator who could have been stopped years ago was allowed to continue molesting young boys.
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The organization No More Victims works with local communities to bring children injured in America’s wars to the U.S. for medical treatment—children like this inspirational little Iraqi girl who simply beams despite everything she has been through.
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Alpha (CC-BY-SA)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron and four of the country’s Internet service providers are bending over backwards to accommodate parents concerned with the allegedly corrosive influence of titillating adverts and porn sites on youth, because teenagers never thought about sex before billboards were invented. (more)
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Flickr / Monica's Dad (CC-BY)
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Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he has signed the California Dream Act, making state financial aid available to undocumented immigrants who choose to attend California universities and community colleges. (more)
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Joe Hall (CC-BY)
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The Census Bureau reports that in 2010, more Americans descended into poverty than in any other time since the government started keeping track in 1959. The 2010 poverty threshold for a family of four was a mere $22,314 a year, and 46.2 million of us have been surviving on that or less.
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Albert Sabaté
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By Mary Slosson, Albert Sabaté, and Andrew Khouri —
Israel began importing workers after the government choked off the flow of cheap Palestinian labor. Abuse and corruption are rampant as employers take advantage of a revolving-door policy meant to protect the state’s Jewish identity.
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By David Sirota — In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is—shocker!—using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nation’s children.
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Flickr/theimpulsivebuy
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Energy drinks might have more serious side effects for children and teenagers than just getting them good and hyper, according to a group of doctors who released a cautionary report in the journal Pediatrics, warning that the amped-up beverages might trigger seizures and other highly undesirable reactions in rare cases. As it happens, they should also lay off the Gatorade.
Posted on May 30, 2011
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Sean MacEntee (CC-BY)
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By David Sirota — Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook—has that website become synonymous with an infamous tobacco industry cartoon that preyed on unsuspecting kids?
Posted on May 27, 2011
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Denis Dervisevic (CC-BY)
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Lior and Vardit Adler of Israel were looking for a unique name for their baby daughter, and boy did they find it. Like Adler was named after the Facebook button, and papa Adler says it’s “the modern equivalent of the name Ahava [Love],” except it’s not, because it’s like. (more)
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