WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...

A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.

After Chimamanda Ngozi's The Danger of a Single Story, pondering the danger of the single stories adults perpetuate about students

Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...

Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes

Literacy doesn’t come in a box, we’ll never find our kids at the bottom of a curriculum package, and there can be no broad support for systemic change that excludes input from and support for teachers...

Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)

"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.

‎Arts · 2023

Welcome to Season 3 of the Degrees of Freedom Podcast! We open this new season with a conversation on Paulo Freire's seminal book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and his ideas on Critical Pedagogy. Our gue

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world. | <p>Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t ...

The dread Israelis are feeling after today&#039;s assault, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.

Fifteen years ago, when I started this blog, I secretly wanted to become one of the popular bloggers. The cool kids. The bloggers with name-brand recognition, book deals, and all the perks—including...

The stiltwalking French shepherds in the marshes of the Landes are incredible, and I love this postcard—which you can buy from a nice person on

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book on racism and growing up Black in America in her adva...