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James Galbraith on inequality • James Livingston denounces thrift • Gar Lipow on practical measures for preventing climate change • Edward Luce on American decline • Joel Schalit on ethnic violence in Europe • Saadia Toor on Pakistan • Dan Lazare on the awfulness of the Supreme Court • Jamie Webster on the oil market • Peter Frase on the problem with sex work: work • Mark Weisbrot on the Argentine model of default • Madhusree Mukerjee on Churchill, India, and famine • Alan Beattie on botched policy resopnses to the crisis • Steingrímur Sigfússon on Iceland’s unorthodox response to crisis • Vijay Prashad on Syria, Libya, and the Arab Spring • Sean Jacobs on Kony and African reality • Trudy Lieberman on health care reform so far • Yanis Varoufakis on the Greek debt deal • Gary Weiss on Ayn Rand • Adolph Reed on politics (black and otherwise) • Kevin Gray on South Carolina • Catherine Liu on education, testing, and the bogus politics of anti-elitism • David Cay Johnston on why Mitt is so lightly taxed • Erin Siegal on adoption scandals • Lane Kenworthy on how much growth trickles down • Enrique Diaz-Alvarez on the eurocrisis • Michael Taft on Ireland • Jodi Dean on OWS & “demands” • Christopher Jencks on inequality • Christine Ahn & Tim Shorrock on North Korea • Aaron “Zunguzungu” Bady on Occupy Oakland....

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from recent issues

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