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  • Closing the Academic Achievement Gap Without Jailing Parents

    Closing the Academic Achievement Gap Without Jailing Parents

    Unai Montes-Irueste: Students are not only condemned to life sentences of educational inequity, their caregivers are jailed for breaking them out of underperforming schools.

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  • Climate Change Evidence: Uncertainties at 90

    Climate Change Evidence: Uncertainties at 90

    Steve Hochstadt: Even when 97% of the world’s scientists engaged in climate research (yes, 97%) agree that global warming caused by human actions is occurring now, it’s easy to close our eyes for one more day.

    Climate Change Evidence: Uncertainties at 90
  • Opposition to Gay Marriage: The Republican Love Affair with the Past

    Opposition to Gay Marriage: The Republican Love Affair with the Past

    Tina Dupuy: The current crop of Republicans are less into Jesus (who didn’t like rich people or capital punishment) than they are into 1st Century values like stoning misfits in the public square.

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  • 10 Most Read Articles — May 5 to 12

    10 Most Read Articles — May 5 to 12

    This week's 10 most read articles leads off with David Love's conjectures on the effect Condi Rice would have on the presidential race and Mitt's changes in November were he to "balance" his ticket with Condolezza Rice.

    10 Most Read Articles -- May 5 to 12
  • Climate-Change Denier Group Feels the Heat

    Climate-Change Denier Group Feels the Heat

    Steven Mikulan: As much as Heartland may wish to deny certain fundamentals of science, there are signs that its gonzo billboard ads have created a classic cause and effect backlash among some supporters.

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  • Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa: Justice vs. Charity

    Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa: Justice vs. Charity

    Peter Dreier: Rosa Parks deserves to be in the same human rights pantheon as Bishop Romero and Eleanor Roosevelt. But not Mother Teresa.

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  • Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Bigotry Isn’t Only a Southern Brew

    Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Bigotry Isn’t Only a Southern Brew

    Sheria Reid: Thirty-one states have amended their constitutions to declare that marriage is between a man and a woman. Unless the South has cloned itself, this problem extends way beyond the South.

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  • Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery

    Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery

    Corey Brooks: Like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama has been "tardy." Pushed by developments beyond his control, Obama's public positions on marriage equality have continued to progress, though gradually.

    abe lincoln 150x150 Obamas Evolving Position on Same Sex Marriage Similar to Lincolns Evolution on Antislavery
  • Atomic Energy Agency Holds Up Iran Cooperation Pact

    Atomic Energy Agency Holds Up Iran Cooperation Pact

    Gareth Porter: The Iranian proposals for change indicate Tehran believes that the IAEA draft is intended to keep Iran under suspicion for an indefinite period as part of a larger negotiating strategy by the United States and its allies.

    Yukiya Amano 150x150 Atomic Energy Agency Holds Up Iran Cooperation Pact

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Climate-Change Denier Group Feels the Heat

Steven Mikulan: As much as Heartland may wish to deny certain fundamentals of science, there are signs that its gonzo billboard ads have created a classic cause and effect backlash among some supporters.

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How Did TV Remember the ’92 L.A. Riots?

Jill Edy: In the immediate aftermath of the 1992 riots, a struggle broke out over naming them. Some called them the “Rodney King riots,” but others objected that this term suggested King was responsible for what had happened.

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Right-Wing Propaganda: False Equivalents

Steve Hochstadt: These two conservative propagandists know that the average reader, especially those who want to believe conservative ideas, won’t or can’t follow the trail backwards from their misleading writings to the real facts. They don’t seek truth, they obscure it.

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Immigration

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Resisting Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Legislation

Jim Rhodes: As opposition to these insane laws began to grow, thanks to students and the Occupy movement, attacks on the laws begin to intensify.

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House VAWA Bill Threatens Protections for Immigrant Women and Children

Michele Waslin: VAWA is an important piece of legislation that deserves to be free from partisan battles over immigration issues.

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Human Dignity Awards Dinner – May 31st

he Program for Torture Victims (PTV)  is rebuilding lives. This 501(c)3 non-profit organization works with torture survivors from over 65 countries. It is the first organization of its kind that does this kind of work — work that has helped heal the wounds of thousands through a comprehensive set of services. PTV provides services to [...]

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ACLU Next: Death Penalty on the Ballot — May 21

Guest Speakers: Jeanne Woodford (former San Quentin warden) and Obie Anthony (exonerated after being wrongfully convicted of murder) Monday, 21 May

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Broken Windows and Los Angeles – Jun 4th

His “broken windows theory” of combating crime—by maintaining order and focusing on minor infractions—helped re-shape LAPD policy. His work on bureaucracy influenced late 20th-century efforts to re-organize California governments.

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Education

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Preparing All Los Angeles High School Students for California’s Public Universities

Maria Brenes: Before the A-G Resolution, only one out of 12 students who graduated from Eastside high school had completed the A-G courses, preparing them for California’s public universities.

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Save Our Schools and Vietnam War Protests

Mark Naison: Within three or four years, revolt against testing and privatization may well cripple many school systems.

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The New Jim Crow

LGBTQIA

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Opposition to Gay Marriage: The Republican Love Affair with the Past

Tina Dupuy: The current crop of Republicans are less into Jesus (who didn’t like rich people or capital punishment) than they are into 1st Century values like stoning misfits in the public square.

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Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Bigotry Isn’t Only a Southern Brew

Sheria Reid: Thirty-one states have amended their constitutions to declare that marriage is between a man and a woman. Unless the South has cloned itself, this problem extends way beyond the South.

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Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery

Like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama has been “tardy.” Pushed by developments beyond his control, Obama’s public positions on marriage equality have continued to progress, though gradually.

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Women

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Help Working Mothers: Motherhood on a Wire

Vivan Rothstein: As a result of the intense conservative politicking around motherhood and its related issues, our country is far behind others in actually supporting moms.

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Dems’ War FOR Women

Brent Budowsky: Word on the street is Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Democrats will launch a major battle supporting pay equity for the women of America that could be a defining moment in the 2012 campaign.

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Fantasies of Male Chivalry Ignore the History of Women in Wartime

Heather Marie Stur: The debate over women in combat is about gender roles — what is appropriate for men and women to do in wartime. It is also about symbolism — what the American soldier symbolizes about U.S. power and military strength.

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Veterans

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Elderly Veteran Shot: Is This How We Support Our Troops?

Bruce Reilly: After 68-year-old Marine Kenneth Chamberlain told police he was alright, over the course of 15 minutes, they finally broke in his door and killed him immediately.

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Naturally, “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent Dodged the Draft

Berry Craig: Nugent is more proof, as if proof were needed, that talk is about the cheapest commodity around. And tough talk from a foul-mouthed old draft dodger is not just cheap, it’s worthless.

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Veterans: The War After The War

Dick Price: Veterans who gathered last week in San Diego were eager to find out what California’s political leaders might do about the alarming rates of homelessness, unemployment, suicide, and disability among the state’s veterans.

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