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Category: American Society
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Out this week, Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling from one of the most outspoken and incisive thinkers in education, Alfie Kohn.
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Union organizers rally around the country today in support of public workers. Read about why they chose April 4th, and read an excerpt from All Labor Has Dignity.
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On the anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas DeWolf reflects on how his life changed America.
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In honor of opening day, an excerpt from Rob Ruck’s Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game.
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Stanley Meisler, author of When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, talks about how Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia contributed to the overthrow of an emperor.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire prompted labor reforms that benefited many workers, but not those who worked in bakeries. The author of White Bread looks at the reasons why.
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A multimedia post from Stanley Meisler about the celebrations surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps
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Stanley Meisler, author of When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, discusses the Peace Corps, its history, and its diminished presence today.
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While watching the footage of the earthquake and tsunami at her home in Japan, Suzanne Kamata couldn’t help thinking about how hard it would be to push a wheelchair through the debris.
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Rashid Khalidi, author of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, and Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, writes about events across the Arab world in the current issue of The Nation. Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of…
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