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Right to Life?
Don’t our children deserve a country with strict gun laws?
Andrea Arroyo and Steve Brodner
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May 20, 2022
The School Board Culture War
Republicans are pushing national wedge issues to the local level, but smart progressives are beating them.
John Nichols
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May 18, 2022
When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short
Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.
Jonathan Zimmerman
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May 13, 2022
So You Want to Reduce Crime?
What kinds of investments have been proven to lower crime rates? (Hint: It’s not directing endless money to the police.)
Bryce Covert
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May 4, 2022
Rebecca Solnit on How People Change and Why We Care
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, we have discussions on forgiveness and the American Revolution.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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May 2, 2022
Me Too and the Not Me Novel
Julia May Jonas’s new novel is a study of a campus scandal and a woman caught in the middle of it.
Laura Marsh
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April 29, 2022
Graduate Workers at Indiana University Are on Strike and Fighting for Recognition
The IU administration believes our work is marginal to the functioning of the university. Only a union can push back.
Christopher Agostino
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April 29, 2022
Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers
Wherever you want to lay the blame, the solution isn’t hard to find—it’s just expensive.
Frida Berrigan
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April 25, 2022
Americans Can’t Afford More Student Loan Payments
Though Biden has extended the payment pause through August, over 5 million people will face serious financial risk once it expires.
Cody Hounanian and Alí R. Bustamante
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April 22, 2022
A Michigan Legislator Shows How to Shred GOP’s Hateful Politics
Mallory McMorrow’s address is one that Democrats would do well to study as they prepare for the 2022 midterm elections.
John Nichols