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This Week in Poverty: January 6, 2011
This Week in Poverty: January 6, 2011
Five things we learned about poverty in 2011—the first of a weekly series.
A Decade of No Child Left Behind
A Decade of No Child Left Behind
Assessing the landmark education legislation on its 10th anniversary.
Huntsman: The Better Foreign Policy Alternative to Paul
Huntsman: The Better Foreign Policy Alternative to Paul
Many on the left have fallen for Ron Paul’s non-interventionism. But there’s a Republican with a more responsible approach: Jon Huntsman.
Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again
Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again
Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.
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Books and the Arts
Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.
A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.
Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Wim Wenders’s Pina.
News and Analysis
Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.
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Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”
How much are the Democrats counting on the profits and jobs generated by arming the world in the coming election?
Time to stop being cynical about corporate money in politics and start being angry.
Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.
With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the president has brought Guantánamo-style justice to the United States.
In just two years, half the country’s states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.
The libertarian, anti-war candidate is surging in the GOP primary. Is this something progressives should cheer? Robert Scheer, Ben Adler and Katha Pollitt offer three views.
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