Vol. 78 No. 12, December - December 2014
Index
- Education nation.
- Return of the know nothings.
- Hail for the chief.
- Mind reader of the House.
- The great equalizer.
- Hightower right on war.
- Low information nation: midterm elections edition.
- Obama like Bush.
- Thank you, Chris Hedges!(WE HEAR YOU) (Letter to the editor)
- Correction.
- Hedges condescending.
- On twitter.
- Readers react to "After the Republican Sweep," by Ruth Conniff.
- Readers respond to Scott Walker's plans to drug-test people who receive food stamps and unemployment assistance.
- Nurses won't take the fall.
- GMOs bite the dust on Maui.
- Syracuse students sit in, speak out.
- "Teachers".
- Cyber Charters.
- K12, Inc.
- Lawsuit.
- What would Martin say?
- An interview with Matt Damon's mom, Nancy Carlsson-Paige.
- Charter Schools flood New Orleans: the disaster ten years later.
- Behind the Charter facade.
- Learning from Karen Lewis.
- There goes the neighborhood school.
- How the corporate education reform industry buys elections.
- Meet the bullies: the flow of money from the corporate education reform industry.
- Chris Christie, school bully.
- An interview with Martin Atkins.
- Schools that work.
- A progressive vision for education.
- Students go on strike.
- Will Durst's 2014 xma$ gift wi$h li$t.
- Olympic nightmares.
- In Defense of Poetry: The Haven House for Homeless Women and Children.
- If there is one lesson from the disastrous 2014 elections, it's that we will never beat back the rightwing takeover of our country by going into a defensive crouch.
- On page 572 of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century....
- "We had no idea what we were in for," writes political cartoonist and journalist Ted Rail about his 2001 entry into Afghanistan.
- In his tenth novel, Those Who Wish Me Dead (Little, Brown), Michael Koryta introduces us to fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson, who is present at a brutal double murder overlooking a rock quarry.
- Of the three books that I've dog-eared page after page, only one was published in 2014.
- The debate over whether the American political process is broken is finished.
- To get at the truth about what's happening in the Middle East and South Asia, you have to dig much deeper than the mainstream media.
- The most urgent book I read this year was Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, edited by Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, and JoAnn Wypijewski (CounterPunch Books).
- 2014 is ending with a deadeningly familiar script: an expanding war in the Middle East, and a corporate media lapping up every justification from the Pentagon.
- The Progressive Index 2014.
- Books Index.
- Election 2014: rise of the secret oligarchs.