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For Texas Schoolchildren, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Criminal Charges

Kristian Hernández, Asher Lehrer-Small, Clare Amari and Rosie Cima The New York Times
More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school. Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014...

The Making of Israel’s Palestinian Mafias

Ghousoon Bisharat (Host), Elat Ma (Guest) +972 Magazine
An epidemic of criminal violence is devastating Palestinian communities inside Israel, with this year’s death toll reaching 168 at the time of recording. But the numbers tell only part of the story: Mafia networks have penetrated almost every aspect

Is Science Journalism Dying?

Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University, Chris Mooney, University of Tennessee The Conversation
Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today

The Gutting of Higher Education – What’s Left of the New School?

Jeremy Varon Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

The Case for Tripling Union Membership

Heidi Shierholz, Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens, Jennifer Sherer, Ben Zipperer, Margaret Polydock Economic Policy Institute
How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy

The Freedom To Be Woke

David Cole The New York Review of Books
A court ruling striking down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act is both a major affirmation of academic freedom and a window into the free-speech debates dividing the right.
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