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What’s Been Stopping the Left?

Dani Rodrik Project Syndicate
If progressive political parties had pursued a bolder agenda in the face of widening inequality and deepening economic anxiety, perhaps the rise of right-wing, nativist political movements might have been averted. So why didn't they?

Media Bits and Bytes - Sugar Mountain Edition

Portside
Media monopolization in a nutshell; Zuckerberg’s forked tongue; Fighting the strip mining of journalism; How old? That old; Privacy Badger; Righter than right                                

Equal Pay Day Is a Reminder That You Can’t Mansplain Away the Gender Pay Gap

Elise Gould and Jessica Schieder Economic Policy Institute
Even after extensive research has been done to show the gender pay gap exists (and persists), some skeptics refuse to believe the data. The infographic shows some of the most common criticisms of the gender wage gap and rebuts the “mansplainers” with data.

Math, Music and Imagination

Marcus Miller Scientific American
Math can be experienced as play much as music is—just what’s needed to enlarge the tribe of creative problem solvers in mathematics and other human disciplines

Inside Game: How Foster Care Was Changed Forever

Daniel Heimpel The American Prospect
How a determined, bipartisan group of House and Senate staffers bucked congressional dysfunction and helped steer a landmark child welfare bill to final passage.
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