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Turning Journalism into a Joke
If you hear someone talking about journalism these days, they're usually complaining about how the industry is collapsing. Or how terribly biased the media is, one way or the other. But every time the annual White House Correspondents Dinner rolls around, the word...
Ohio’s Poorly Performing School Assessment
I recently learned that I teach at a persistently poor performing school. It happened after Ohio bureaucrats unveiled new, "more rigorous" criteria for determining success and failure in the state's public schools. My district, previously deemed worthy of "continuous...
Fighting the Foodopoly
My new book is called Foodopoly. It's about the corporate control of every aspect of our food system, from how what we eat is labeled to the pesticides we're exposed to. We, the people, must reclaim our democracy. We must reestablish strong antitrust laws to begin the...
Middle Eastern Re-Run
Can you hear it? Conservatives are beating their war drums and banging their tambourines, trying to gin up support for U.S. intervention in Syria. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have been particularly vocal about their...
How We Pay for CEO ‘Performance’
Federal unemployment benefits for 400,000 Californians out of work since last fall recently dropped 18 percent, a $52 cut out of weekly checks that average $297. Similar cuts are rolling out in other states. In all, long-term unemployed Americans will on average lose...
Hollow Bee Hives May Threaten Our Lives Too
You may think that your most significant interaction with bees is trying not to get stung. But, in fact, you have bees to thank for nearly one-third of all food crops: almonds, apples, peaches, honey, and watermelons, to name a few. If our bees are in trouble, then...
Fashion Victims
You see it in stores across our country and around the world: colorful and stylish clothing with happy-sounding brand names like Children's Place, Papaya, Joe Fresh, and Mango. But you don't see the factories where these cheerful garments are made. Nor are we shown...
Our Stake in Guatemala’s Genocide Trial
With Syria's strife, the NRA's annual meeting, and Kim Kardashian's prenatal woes to report, Central America doesn't exactly dominate U.S. headlines these days. So we understand that the octogenarian former dictator standing trial in Guatemala for unspeakable acts of...
Made in Bangladesh
Big Ag Chokes on Its Own Scam
Amy Meyer was curious. Then she was appalled. Then she was charged with the "crime" of using a cell phone to video what appalled her. Welcome to the Brave New World of "ag-gag" laws being pushed by agribusiness corporations to stop reporters, workers, animal rights...
