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Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools

The teachers across Agora Cyber Charter’s “virtual classrooms” have won an unlikely organizing victory.

Sep 14, 2016 / Michelle Chen

A Lion in Winter

A Lion in Winter A Lion in Winter

Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.

Sep 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

North Korean Nuclear Missiles

How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas? How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?

The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons.

Sep 13, 2016 / William D. Hartung

Ohio early voting

Ohio Keeps Making It Harder to Vote Ohio Keeps Making It Harder to Vote

Black voters were five times more likely than whites to cast a ballot during the early voting days eliminated by Ohio Republicans.

Sep 13, 2016 / Ari Berman

US Mexico Border

America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born

The United States was an explicitly racist project intended to populate the land with white people—maybe that’s what Donald means by “Make America Great Again”?

Sep 13, 2016 / Aviva Chomsky

Dakota Access Pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux Have Been Heard. Now What? The Standing Rock Sioux Have Been Heard. Now What?

Construction on a part of the Dakota Access Pipeline has been suspended, but protesters aren’t going anywhere. 

Sep 13, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

What’s the Number 1 Threat to Security? No One Is Asking Trump or Clinton

What’s the Number 1 Threat to Security? No One Is Asking Trump or Clinton What’s the Number 1 Threat to Security? No One Is Asking Trump or Clinton

Missing from an election season dominated by spectacle and confrontation is the serious debate we desperately need to have about nuclear weapons.

Sep 13, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Who Freed the Slaves?

Who Freed the Slaves? Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Sep 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie McCurry

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Lessons From Donald Trump’s Biggest Hero Lessons From Donald Trump’s Biggest Hero

Step 1: Become president of your country without ever having held elective office.

Sep 13, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Kerry Lavrov Syrian Diplomacy

Kerry and Lavrov’s Syrian Diplomacy Shows (Once Again) the Value of Détente Kerry and Lavrov’s Syrian Diplomacy Shows (Once Again) the Value of Détente

Serious observers understand that working with Russia to ease Syria’s civil war is the only way to stop the crisis.

Sep 12, 2016 / James Carden

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