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Why I’m Standing With LA Teachers

Roxana Tynan LAANE
LAANE members holding Support LA teachers signs L.A. teachers are asking for more than just a well-deserved pay raise. They are also demanding smaller class sizes, less mandatory testing, increase in per-pupil funding, and more adults like nurses, librarians, social workers, and counselors...

US Economy Faces Hit from Climate Change, Report Warns

Coral Davenport and Kendra Pierre-Louis The New York Times
Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.

Friday Nite Videos | November 23, 2018

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Saudi Arabia. Alexandria Goes to Washington. The Quickie: Sarah on Prom Nazis. Get This: It's Not 'Both Sides'. Ion Drive: The First Flight

Lies, Damn Lies and Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre The Conversation
Any amateur politician can engage in lying. Trump is engaging in “post-truth.” Ideology takes precedence over reality.

Freedom of Assembly Still Matters

Jan-Werner Mueller Project Syndicate
Protests are essential to the democratic experience and can never be replaced by online activism or voting.

High Score, Low Pay: Why the So-Called Gig Economy Loves Gamification

Sarah Mason The Guardian
Supporters of Uber and Lyft drivers cheer. Gamification is the use of game elements in non-game contexts. Incentivizing workers based on individual competition and bonuses isn’t new, but when Sarah Mason became a Lyft driver she found the gig economy had taken gamification to another level.
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