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New Report From The UChicago Consortium Is The Best Synopsis Of Useful Education Research That I’ve Seen In A Long Time
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Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay The UChicago Consortium On School Research is commonly viewed as the “gold standard” of education research, and I’ve posted …
Women's News
How Racism and Patriarchy Is Taught at School
Harper's BAZAAR - By Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
The America that was founded in 1776 was one designed to benefit the rich white men who set up shop on the indigenous land they “found.” Today, we are seeing modern manifestations of that same patriarchal
Social Security
Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit
Forbes - Teresa Ghilarducci
This is not a political column, it’s a push back on the political distortion of legal and math facts about Social Security. Recently political leaders, such as the Senate leader Mitch McConnell, as Michael
Loans
Here's Fresh Evidence Student Loans Are a Massive, Generational Scam
VICE - Matt Taylor
The co-author of an enraging new report called the student loan system "a failed social experiment." Over the centuries, America has bestowed generous, state-sponsored privileges upon select classes of
Opinion (UK)
Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
The Guardian - Aditya Chakrabortty
Columnists usually proffer answers, but today I want to ask a question, a big one. What price is paid when a promise is broken? Because for much of my life, and probably yours, the political class has
Opinion
Madison Never Envisioned Minority Rule
Bloomberg Opinion - Jonathan Bernstein
Photographer: Joe Sohm/Visions of America I strongly recommend Jamelle Bouie’s piece on James Madison, majority rule and the imperative of questioning the structure of the government. He’s right that Senate
Labor Movement
Labor-union militancy revives, from hotels to schools and steel mills
csmonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor
Boston You can hear the strikers at Boston’s Sheraton hotel before you see them. Chanting “Marriott, shame on you!" and “If we don’t get it, shut it …
Jeff Bezos
Here's the long-lost 1975 TV show that Jeff Bezos makes people watch to understand what his space company is all about
Business Insider - Matt Weinberger and Dave Mosher
• Jeff Bezos asked a reporter to watch a PBS special from 1975 before agreeing to be interviewed about Blue Origin, his rocket company.• The special, featuring famed science fiction author Isaac Asimov
Green Bay
Why They Kneel: The White Privilege of Self-Segregation in Green Bay and San Francisco
The Root - Michael Harriot
Business
How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town
The Atlantic - Derek Thompson
New York’s empty storefronts are a dark omen for the future of cities. These days, walking through parts of Manhattan feels like occupying two worlds at the same time. In a theoretical universe, you are
Fascism
How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump
Guardian US - Tom McCarthy
Stanley reassures us it is OK to use the F-word, even applied to regimes that do not appear to seek world domination One of the insidious ironies of fascist politics, the philosopher Jason Stanley writes
U.S. Politics
How Red and Green Slime (Really) Could Swing Florida’s Senate Race
POLITICO - By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
If Rick Scott knocks Bill Nelson out of the U.S. Senate, the Republicans probably hold the chamber. But there’s trouble in the water—literally. John Moran is a Florida nature photographer, but lately sees
Liberal View
This is why right-wing Christians believe they’re the most persecuted people in America
rawstory.com
A Pew study found that white American Evangelical Christians think they experience more discrimination than Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Atheists or …
World News
These war heroes face another kind of danger
CNN - By Laura Klairmont, CNN
Oakton, Virginia (CNN) — In 2008, Matt Zeller was serving in Afghanistan as a captain in the US Army. One day while out on a routine mission, he and his squad were attacked by Taliban insurgents. Zeller
Opinion (UK)
It's time to abandon the cruelty of meritocracy
The Guardian - Steven Pearlstein
We have created a meritocratic aristocracy The luck of parental lottery can never be overcome No moral intuition is more hard-wired into Americans’ conception of their country as a just society than equality
Technology
At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
Light is the fastest thing in the universe, so trying to catch it on the move is necessarily something of a challenge. We’ve had some success, but a new rig built by Caltech scientists pulls down a mind-boggling
Women's News
Trump administration plans crackdown on protests outside White House
Guardian US - Luke O'Neil
Donald Trump has frequently and falsely crowed about the idea of so-called paid protesters, including most recently the sexual assault survivors who confronted senators in the lead-up to the Brett Kavanaugh
Stock Markets
Trump May Scapegoat the Fed, But a Bear Market This Year Will Belong to Him
Fortune - Kevin Kelleher
It’s often said that stock markets, whether good or bad, are unfairly linked to whoever sits in the Oval Office. Stocks reflect how investors feel …
Education
Three Myths That Explain Why Americans Don't Know Much About History
Forbes - Natalie Wexler
Every few weeks bring fresh evidence that many Americans don’t know basic facts about their country, usually followed by urgent calls for more civics education. But the basic problem is educators’ lack
Opinion
Faces of a new capitalism: How Millennials are embracing socialist values
csmonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor
Baltimore and Boston You might say that it was in a bread line where economics came into focus for Bernardo Vigil Rendon. He was employed, actually, …
Philosophy
How to Be a Good Friend, According to an Ancient Philosopher
TIME - By Philip Freeman
The best friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero was named Atticus. His real name was Titus Pomponius, but he took the name Atticus because of his love for …
Stock Markets
The world's biggest stock bear predicts 'immediate and severe consequences' for the record-setting market — and explains
Business Insider - Joe Ciolli
• John Hussman — the outspoken investor and former professor who has been predicting a stock crash — says the Federal Reserve is largely to blame for a toxic situation in markets that's headed for "immediate
African-American News
If You Have an iPhone, Do This Right Now—Just in Case You Get Pulled Over by Police
The Root - Michael Harriot
U.S. Politics
The Republican Party Needs to Embrace Liberalism
The Atlantic - David Frum
Classical liberal values have disappeared from the right and are now disappearing from the left. Someone needs to adopt them. Why not the GOP? The word liberal was one of the many casualties of the Vietnam
Opinion (UK)
Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike
The Guardian - Owen Jones
The day McDonald’s workers walked out on strike was the best day of Shen Batmaz’s life: she has even tattooed the date on her arm. “I was so tired and overwhelmed,” she recalls as she stood on a picket
Law
Imagine if, instead of testifying before the Senate, Kavanaugh and Ford had tried restorative justice:
slate.com - Lara Bazelon
Survivors of sexual assault might have finally received some real justice, and seen some real recognition and grappling. Those who perpetrate sexual …
Justice
The man who gave his Supreme Court seat to Donald Trump is very upset about incivility
ThinkProgress - Ian Millhiser
Justice Kennedy did more than any living American to undermine democracy. Now he’s mad about it. Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored the …
Business
The crypto world is going wild for 'stablecoins' — here's everything you need to know about them
Business Insider - Oscar Williams-Grut
• 'Stablecoins' are the hottest thing in crypto right now, with over 50 projects in development. • A 'stablecoin' is a cryptocurrency that's price is pegged to a real-world asset like gold or the dollar.
Chuck Grassley
The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism
The Atlantic - Eliot A. Cohen
The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane. Ignoring the dictum
Books
Blame parents for ‘snowflake’ millennials, says author Fay Weldon
The Guardian - Dalya Alberge
It is unfair to deride millennials as “snowflakes” or to criticise them as overly sensitive, self-centred or ignorant because it is their parents who are at fault, the author Fay Weldon has said. “We stop

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New Report From The UChicago Consortium Is The Best Synopsis Of Useful Education Research That I’ve Seen In A Long Time

How Racism and Patriarchy Is Taught at School

Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit

Here's Fresh Evidence Student Loans Are a Massive, Generational Scam

Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so

Madison Never Envisioned Minority Rule

Labor-union militancy revives, from hotels to schools and steel mills

Here's the long-lost 1975 TV show that Jeff Bezos makes people watch to understand what his space company is all about

Why They Kneel: The White Privilege of Self-Segregation in Green Bay and San Francisco

How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town

How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump

How Red and Green Slime (Really) Could Swing Florida’s Senate Race

This is why right-wing Christians believe they’re the most persecuted people in America

These war heroes face another kind of danger

It's time to abandon the cruelty of meritocracy

At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion

Trump administration plans crackdown on protests outside White House

Trump May Scapegoat the Fed, But a Bear Market This Year Will Belong to Him

Three Myths That Explain Why Americans Don't Know Much About History

Faces of a new capitalism: How Millennials are embracing socialist values

How to Be a Good Friend, According to an Ancient Philosopher

The world's biggest stock bear predicts 'immediate and severe consequences' for the record-setting market — and explains

If You Have an iPhone, Do This Right Now—Just in Case You Get Pulled Over by Police

The Republican Party Needs to Embrace Liberalism

Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike

Imagine if, instead of testifying before the Senate, Kavanaugh and Ford had tried restorative justice:

The man who gave his Supreme Court seat to Donald Trump is very upset about incivility

The crypto world is going wild for 'stablecoins' — here's everything you need to know about them

The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism

Blame parents for ‘snowflake’ millennials, says author Fay Weldon