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David Cay Johnston on the IRS scandal • Richard Katz on Abenomics • Barbara Garson on coping with recession and decline • Corey Robin on reaction • Mark Blyth on austerity • Alex Vitalie on the militarization of the cops • Josh Eidelson on worker actions in fast food and against Walmart • Minqi Li on the Chinese economy • George Ciccariello-Maher on the movements that Hugo Chavez both emerged from and enabled • Tom Mills and Richard Seymour talk (unkindly) about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher • Kate Losse on Sheryl Sandberg’s feminism and the meaning of Facebook • Ahmad Shokr on Egypt’s economy • Terry Kupers on the psychological effects of prison • Haley Sweetland Edwards on how Wall Street took over Dodd-Frank • Yanis Varoufakis on the economies of Australia, Cyprus, and Greece• Jonathan Westin on organizing fast food workers in NYC • Özgür Orhangazi and George Ciccariello-Maher on Venezuela under Chávez • Robert Gordon on the end of growth • Adolph Reed on some recent “race” movies • Barbara Fields on racecraft, the American ideology of race • Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the virtues of immigration • Joel Schalit on the complexities of sanctioning Israel, and the rise of theo-fascism there • Helaine Olen on the personal finance scam • Heidi Shierholz on wage polarization • Natasha Lennard on Aaron Swartz & prosecutorial abuse • Nikhil Goyal on the school reform racket • Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin on the American empire (encore presentation) • Sarah Jaffe class angles femnism • Greg Grandin on Chavez, Venezuela, and LatAm social democracy • Brad DeLong on fiscal follies • Seth Ackerman on a possible socialism • Michael Dorsey on the Doha climate conference • Yanis Varoufakis on Greece and the Eurocrisis • Sasha Lilley on the political misuses of catastrophe • Mark Ames on rampage shootings, gun control, and the reactionary worldview of the NRA • Jamie Webster on the U.S. oil boom • Yasmin Nair on the Gay Inc. and hate crimes laws • Jane McAlevey on how labor can save itself • Frank Bardacke on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers • Jamie Galbraith on the fiscal cliff • Walter Benn Michaels on the election, diversity, & left neoliberalism • Sarah Jaffe on Occupy Sandy • Anne Elizabeth Moore on Cambodia • Jodi Dean reclaims “communism” ....

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LBO goes to school: the education package

How we could do better Yes, poverty has a lot to do with poor educational performance, but that’s a long way from the whole story. We’re just not “resilient.”

In and out of school How the U.S. stacks up internationally on education spending, enrollment, attainment (hint: not so well)

Beastly numbers How do you explain educational outcomes? Poverty, mostly.

Charter to nowhere Do charter schools work, and if so, for whom?

and otherwise

What a damn mess Just how bad does this economy suck? Real bad.

2009: income down, poverty up, more uninsured income & poverty in the U.S. [note: 2010 numbers in the latest issue, for subscribers only].

Old world, new crisis The EU melodrama