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"The Passing of the Great Race" at 100

Noel Hartman Public Books
A century ago, Madison Grant was one of the most influential racists in the United States. Republican presidents echoed his ideas. He helped shape immigration legislation. His ideas showed up in U.S. literature and popular culture. Adolph Hitler was a fan. In this essay, Noel Hartman focuses on Grant's best-known book and reminds us how some of Grant's ideas have survived and resurfaced in our current presidential campaign.

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.

'Snowden' Isn’t Paranoid Enough

David Sims The Atlantic
Snowden, Oliver Stone’s new film is a perfunctory biopic about the NSA’s international surveillance programs that lacks his trademark fearlessness. The film feels trite in its efforts to depict America’s ensnarement in the creepy web of online spying.

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."

The Invisble Workforce: Death, Discrimination and Despair in N.J.'s Temp Industry

Kelly Heyboer NJ.com
The business of providing temps to factories and warehouses is booming in New Jersey, which has one of the highest concentration of temps in the country . But New Jersey's "temp towns" have a dark side. Workers say this sector of the temporary employment industry is rife with mistreatment. They complain about low pay or not being paid at all, rampant racial and sexual discrimination, unsafe working conditions and a system that seems to exploit them at every turn.