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Every Schoolchild Should Eat Free Every Schoolchild Should Eat Free
Full bellies lead to attentive minds.
Sep 26, 2024 / Bryce Covert
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Students Deserve Better Than Active-Shooter Drills Students Deserve Better Than Active-Shooter Drills
Until lawmakers decide that protecting our children is more important than protecting access to guns, we’ll continue to see students and their teachers die too soon.
Sep 20, 2024 / Kimberly Lawson
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War Has Forced Gaza’s Children to Grow Up Far Too Soon War Has Forced Gaza’s Children to Grow Up Far Too Soon
“Instead of playing and jumping, he is thinking of how to help us survive," one father says.
Jul 5, 2024 / Noor Alyacoubi
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Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment
What if it were the start of a movement?
Apr 11, 2024 / Nick H. Penniman
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The “Parental Rights” Fanatics Have Descended on LA The “Parental Rights” Fanatics Have Descended on LA
I’m a public school parent. I shouldn’t have to spend my time fighting these violent, bigoted extremists.
Sep 12, 2023 / Daisy Gardner
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Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever
It should be a reminder of how deeply retrogressive capitalism has once again become both here at home and elsewhere across the planet.
Jul 13, 2023 / Steve Fraser
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How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer
Antiquated and discriminatory rules around fertility treatments are making the struggle to have a child immeasurably more difficult for many military families.
May 18, 2023 / Britta Lokting
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You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child
"Gentle parenting" aims to protect children from harm, but in whittling acceptable language down to a handful of phrases, the movement not only distrusts parents, but also disallow...
May 9, 2023 / Kate Shannon Jenkins
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The GOP Has Become the Pro–Child Labor Party The GOP Has Become the Pro–Child Labor Party
How a new economy of exploitation is rolling back protections—for profit.
Mar 14, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Lessons on Resistance From a Child of the First Climate-Change Generation Lessons on Resistance From a Child of the First Climate-Change Generation
No one sang me a lullaby about the future—and we shouldn’t do that for this generation of kids, either. They need the truth to start to prepare for the changes that are coming.
Dec 15, 2022 / Feature / Mary Annaïse Heglar