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The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

Bill Bigelow Zinn Education Project
Let’s make sure that our schools show some respect, by studying the social forces that starved and uprooted over a million Irish—and that are starving and uprooting people today.

Inside Low-wage Workers’ Plan to Sue McDonald’s — and Win

Timothy Noah MSNBC
Last week workers filed wage theft lawsuits against McDonald's in three states. The suits are an attempt to get at the franchise system in particular, which has enabled large corporations to avoid legal responsibility for what happens in the franchise.

The Apartheid of Children's Literature

Christopher Myers, Opinion The New York Times
Of 3,200 children's books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin.

Congress

Tom Toles The Washington Post

Blackout

Economist Dean Baker The Guardian