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Teachers have underwritten the underfunded public school system with their pocketbooks and after-school hours, stealing both time and money from their families to provide for their students. Normal was awful. It is time to be bold.

As it turns out, high-earners won't leave if you increase their taxes.

"I only know firsthand the rage of one who wonders while reading what happened on the seventh floor of that Southern Baptist building, how many children were raped ... while we boasted that no one could reach the world for Jesus like we could."

In Texas, a teacher told her students she was required by law to provide them with multiple perspectives on the racist conspiracy theory that allegedly motivated the deadly attack in Buffalo.

A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.

“Is It Cake?” can be interpreted as deeply tied to a cultural moment in which deception – and learning how to recognize it – has become a part of everyday life.

There are two lessons one can learn from the Sri Lankan experience. The first is that a welfare state is totally incompatible with a neo-liberal regime. The second is that every country is vulnerable to a “contingency crisis” under neo-liberalism.

Cuomo gifted himself “rolling budget adjustment” powers, which allows him to make cuts on a quarterly basis with little to no oversight. Meanwhile, he refuses to raise taxes on his billionaire donors which could fill the budget gap.

States tell workers they'll lose unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to jobs.

‘He had the power to start a fire with his voice’