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Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
By Bill Blum

New York City’s Summers May Heat Up
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By David Sirota

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

‘Children Are Dying’

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Paul McCartney: Free Pussy Riot

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‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Ends the War on Terror

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Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

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A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

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Tag: Universities

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Brown Signs California Dream Act Into Law

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)

Posted on Oct 8, 2011 READ MORE | 26 COMMENTS

University of California Berkeley

A British Perspective: How U.S. Universities Became Hedge Funds

A U.K. journal offers a great primer on why our public universities—especially California’s—are in such a dismal state these day.

Posted on May 5, 2011 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

Troy Jollimore on Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

In a short and powerful manifesto, renowned philosopher and critic Martha Nussbaum issues a passionate call to resist persistent efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product.

Posted on Apr 22, 2010 READ MORE | 63 COMMENTS

Time to Crack Down on the Student Loan Cesspool

By Marie Cocco —

The markers of a mushrooming student loan scandal are identical to so many of the rest: The Bush administration, determined to turn the federal government into a favor bank for its corporate cronies, ignored every indicator that the $85-billion-a-year student loan industry was rife with corruption.

Posted on May 3, 2007 READ MORE | 19 COMMENTS

From indybay.org

Supreme Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting

Colleges and universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even in the face of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay people. John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion.