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McCain's NYT Interview: Federalism, Live and In the Flesh

John McCain is famous for chatting with reporters for hours on end, but everyday folks (and even reporters from small...

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| Sat Jul. 12, 2008 6:01 PM PDT

Golf Is the Justice Department's Solution to Gangs?

In another embarrassing moment for the DOJ, ABC News reported that Justice recently awarded a competitive half-million dollar grant for prevention of juvenile delinquency to the World Golf Foundation's First Tee program. "We need something really attractive to engage the gangs and the street kids. Golf is the hook," said J. Robert Flores of the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention....

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| Thu Jun. 12, 2008 1:28 PM PDT

Top 10: Animal Planet Does Father's Day

Animal Planet is celebrating Father's Day with an A-List of Nature's Best Dads. Top contenders include the golden jackal (monogamous), the seahorse (pregnant), and the Emperor penguin, (good with kids). But is the lion, (fiercely protective) really a "better" father than Eastern grey squirrels, which routinely eat their young? Here's hoping Animal Planet will continue anthropomorphizing all year—plenty of holidays await! Perhaps a...

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| Tue Jun. 10, 2008 1:45 PM PDT

Oprah's Peace Corps Lite: O Really?

Oprah has apparently decided to <a target="new" href="http://www.oambassadors.org/global">reinvent the Peace Corps</a> in her spare time. The new <a target="new" href="http://www.oprah.com/ophilanthropy/oambassadors/slide/200805/20080526/slide_20080526_350_101.jhtml">O Ambassadors</a> are essentially younger, poorer, Oprah-backed versions of <a target="new" href="http://www.peacecorps.gov/">who I was</a> in Africa after college, as far as I can tell. Good for Oprah, saving the world again and all that...right? Right? Okay, I'll let her site explain the program's differences to you:

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| Wed May. 28, 2008 12:01 AM PDT

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Students Think Liberating Lab Animals Is Lame

The results of our student activism survey are already flooding in, and respondents&#8212;both current and former students&#8212;believe the lamest form...

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| Thu May. 15, 2008 5:23 PM PDT

Guns Don't Kill People, Irresponsible Gun Dealers Do

Eric Thompson sells guns on the Internet. Of course, you may already know that. After all, his Green Bay,...

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| Thu May. 8, 2008 2:39 PM PDT

Is Boycotting Wal-Mart Activism?

We want the lowdown on student activism, past and present. Been arrested and regret it? Would your school win the...

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| Thu May. 8, 2008 11:32 AM PDT

Are Today's Student Activists Lazy?

We want the lowdown on student activism, past and present. Been arrested and regret it? Would your school win the...

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 5:41 PM PDT
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The Handcuffs of 1968

Forty years after the student protests at Columbia, that radical April day remains etched in memory.

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| Wed Apr. 30, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Militias in the Middle East Classrooms

Some Iraqi refugee children haven't been to school in five years. Do they still have career goals?

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| Wed Mar. 26, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Gender Bending Language

Last week I examined the issue of gender-neutral language, and demurred at the tendency of the English language to fall back on male-dominant pronouns. Having poked around in a few writing style guides, I concluded that their rules negate the need to pander to linguists looking to strip our pronouns of any association with gender or sex. What my heterocentrist discussion&#8212;similar to that of...

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| Mon Mar. 24, 2008 12:05 PM PDT

Would English Be Eleganter Without Feminists?

Over at the Weekly Standard, Yale computer science professor David Gelerntner thinks feminism has no place in the English language: When students have been ordered since first grade to put "he or she" in spots where "he" would mean exactly the same thing?How can we then tell them, "Make every word, every syllable count!" They may be ignorant but they're not stupid. He also...

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| Fri Mar. 14, 2008 11:15 AM PDT

Financial Aid at Top Private Universities May Be Kiss of Death for Public Schools

Last week Stanford University jumped on the ever-growing financial aid bandwagon, announcing the the school would extend support to middle-...

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| Tue Feb. 26, 2008 5:38 PM PST

Wearing White (To A Confirmation Hearing)

Yesterday, in a room full of assembled dignitaries, President Bush's controversial nominee for the federal district court in Wyoming stuck...

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| Wed Feb. 13, 2008 1:09 PM PST

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Crayons Down!

Babes in test land

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| Mon Jan. 21, 2008 1:00 AM PST

The Debate Over Virtual Schools

An appeals court ruling to cut funds for a virtual K-8 school in Wisconsin has rippled through the interwebs this...

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| Fri Jan. 18, 2008 1:46 PM PST

Rotenberg Center Blasted By Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Media After A Prankster Gets Employees to "Accidentally" Shock Kids 100 Times

In our September/October issue, we published a 9,000 word story, "School of Shock: Inside the taxpayer-funded program that treats...

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| Wed Dec. 19, 2007 5:48 PM PST

Editors' Note - January/February 2007

From the January/February 2008 Issue

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| Tue Dec. 11, 2007 1:00 AM PST
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Brodner's Person of the Day: Whatshisname

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| Thu Dec. 6, 2007 1:00 AM PST