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Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help. 

Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?

Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.

The most radical thing a person can be is herself—without apology or explanation.

As the hunger strike approaches its 100th day on May 17, 100 prisoners are refusing food.

A throwback is just that, even if it is shrouded in organic hemp cloth.

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

Buddhism is marked by concern for the welfare of all “sentient” creatures. But when it is harnessed to ethnic intolerance and extreme nationalism, it can turn violent.

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