As Goes Maine?

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
A hopeful story about the survival of independent local newspapers

More Police in Schools Than Counselors

Robert Koehler LA Progressive
The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff.

Why Crack Became the 1980s ‘Superdrug’

Jonathan Green The New York Times
This book "offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws."

Friday Nite Videos -- March 21, 2014

Portside
The Myth of the American Dream. Turn! Turn! Turn! Big Bang Gravitational Waves Discovered. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The House Rent Boogie.

The Myth of the American Dream

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how income inequality killed the "American Dream" and he puts to death the notion that everyone has the same opportunity to achieve it.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Pete Seeger created this complex song simply by adding a title, concluding line and music to verses from the biblical Book of Ecclesiates. Here is the the Byrd's (most popular) version.