Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry as each group tries to fend off the government’s push for more accountability. Alec MacGillis reports.
La isla no tiene nada para nadie: José Amador talks about El Hijo Prodigo
And several butchers’ aprons.
Government Releases Massive Trove of Data on Doctors’ Prescribing Patterns
Medicare did little to find dangerous prescribing by doctors to seniors and the disabled. Now the government are looking for transparency. ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein reports.
After NSA Ruling, Congress at Odds Over Mass Surveillance
Federal court ruled on Thursday that NSA mass surveillance program, which government justified through Patriot Act provisions, is illegal.
The Architectural Arch and the Liberation of Music
Architecture as frozen music. At least, Goethe thought so. Thus the basis for some poetic machinations by Lewis Gesner.
Foreclosure Crisis Fueled Dramatic Rise of Racial Segregation: Study
Displacement of black and Latino households was so dramatic, crisis should be seen as a ‘mass migration event’ says lead author of paper.

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