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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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The Left is Losing the War on Education. Here’s How We Can Win Again.
As voucher programs expand nationwide, direct action, protests and declarations of support for public schools isn't irrelevant. But after years of retreat, it’s time for a different tactic in the war on education.
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Republican Majorities Accelerate Dismantling of Public Education Protections
Holding majorities across three levels of state governance, Republicans can continue to slash budgets for k-12 education while deregulating urban schools via voucher programs and charter schools.
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Legal Battles Over Wisconsin Pipeline Shines Light on Enbridge Woes
The Bad River Tribal Council voted in January to evict Enbridge’s Line 5 from tribal lands, arguing that the pipeline’s age poses a significant threat to tribal lands and water supplies.
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Trump, Betsy DeVos and the Plan to End Democratic Education
The president-elect has already pledged $20 billion to expand voucher programs nationwide, and his appointee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, views dismantling public education as a mission from God.
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Milwaukee Teachers, Students, Activists Claim Victory After School Privatization Effort Fails
Wisconsin attributed its suspension of the privatization program to increased test scores and new criteria for grading schools – but months of resistance from public school staff, students and community organizers ultimately achieved the win.
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Campus Chill: How Freezing Tuition Became the Latest Move in the Austerity Playbook
At first glance, the appeal of a tuition freeze is obvious: the bills directly benefit students and can be written, passed and enforced in just months. But not everyone is on board, for good reasons.
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In Bid To Reclaim Senate Seat, Russ Feingold Isn't the Same Old Maverick
Wisconsin's former champion of campaign finance reform is working more closely than ever with PACs to get re-elected – prompting questions about his credentials as a progressive leader in 2016.
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No Confidence Vote At U of Wisconsin Reveals An Education System In Crisis
Just as Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 dismantled the security and stability of union protection in K-12 education, recent tenure changes threaten a fair hiring and firing process in the University of Wisconsin System.
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President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
Posted 1 month 4 weeks ago
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Posted 1 week 1 day ago
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
Posted 3 weeks 5 days ago
If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
Posted 2 weeks 1 day ago
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
