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Another For-Profit College Folds

Josh Hoxie OtherWords.org
The closure of ITT Tech should be a warning to other educational institutions looking to make a dime at the expense of students.

Standing with Troy Davis in His Final Days

Jen Marlowe Yes! Magazine
Five years ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.

Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part One, Building Movements

Jessie Kindig Process
On the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison rebellion in 1971, Process speaks with seven scholars of the carceral state -- Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony Platt, and Heather Ann Thompson -- about prisoners’ organizing in the 1960s and 1970s and movements protesting mass incarceration today. This is the first of a three-part series, guest edited for Process by Jessie Kindig.

The Public Option Is Back: Our Enthusiasm Should Be Tempered

Don McCanne Common Dreams
"A public option will be only one more player in our costly, fragmented system of funding health care," writes McCanne. "It alone will bring us none of the important features of a single payer system such as efficiency, equity, systemic cost savings, and universality."

High Times: How Will Budtenders and Trimmigrants Fare If Pot Is Legalized?

Judith Lewis Mernit Capital and Main
As California voters prepare to vote about legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, promises and omens have become part of the debate over the state’s future if Proposition 64 is passed. Will the traditional small-time pot farmers be replaced by industrial grow operations? Will employees in this newly legalized commerce receive decent pay, working conditions and benefits? Or will the new cannabis worker have more in common with the low-wage, immigrant farm workers?