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Putting Numbers into Context: A Winnable Battle Our Side Doesn’t Want to Fight
Putting numbers into context is easy and helps people understand what social programs actually cost. So why don’t reporters do it? Dean Baker writes.
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Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons
Every schoolchild knows that school is a commuted sentence. Kerry McDonald on just how real the metaphor is.
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Free Thing of the Week: Marwood Williams Sings at The Seattle Star Creative Commons Celebration
We bring you a Star thing from the recent past: a music video from our very first Creative Commons Music & Poetry event last year, featuring Marwood Williams.
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Sunday Comics
If it no be craze, why for Amrika? As time dey go, things just dey bad. They bad more and more. Poor man dey cry, rich man dey mess. Sunday Comics. Democrazy, crazy demo — demonstration of craze, crazy demonstration.
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Brotherly Nations or Family Feud—The Qatar Crisis Explained
Our correspondent in the Middle East gets down and dirty about Qatar and its neighbors.
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Medicare for 64-Year-Olds is a Step Toward Medicare for All
Lowering the Medicare age to 64 offers two very good tests. Dean Baker writes.
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Building Design Requirements Should Be Reformed, Not Abolished
The solution to poor regulation in Arkansas is unregulation. Bad idea. Daniel Herriges writes.
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The Teenage Investigative Reporters Taking on Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Journalism has taken Bektour Iskender through revolutions, death threats and even a crowdfunded space venture. James Watkins writes.
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Sunday Comics
All is well, as long as we keep spinning here and now. Dancing behind a wall, read Sunday Comics, and laughter within. All forgiven always and never been true.
