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Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms

Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms

Will Bezos’s interest in changing education policy affect his control of the Post?

Aug 6, 2013 / Lee Fang

‘Quit’ Isn’t How Anthony Weiner Rolls

‘Quit’ Isn’t How Anthony Weiner Rolls ‘Quit’ Isn’t How Anthony Weiner Rolls

Anatomy of a near-believable performance.

Aug 6, 2013 / Leslie Savan

Growing Up in the John Birch Society

Growing Up in the John Birch Society Growing Up in the John Birch Society

A new memoir exposes the trauma of growing up in an extreme-right-wing family—and the way those traumas were visited, politically, on the rest of us.

Aug 6, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball

Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball—which reaped the financial rewards of the steroids era through feigned naïveté—is now content to scapegoat the players for the current...

Aug 6, 2013 / Press Room

Russia’s Stake in Syria’s War

Russia’s Stake in Syria’s War Russia’s Stake in Syria’s War

Obama could be arming fighters who want to take their struggle to Russia itself.

Aug 6, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss

A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph

A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph

August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

Aug 6, 2013 / Robert Scheer

I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours

I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours

The crime of the century.

Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt

The NSA Comes Clean

The NSA Comes Clean The NSA Comes Clean

The agency is either looking at you or looking out for you.

Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow

The Voting Rights Act Is in Peril on Its Forty-Eighth Anniversary

The Voting Rights Act Is in Peril on Its Forty-Eighth Anniversary The Voting Rights Act Is in Peril on Its Forty-Eighth Anniversary

The VRA transformed American democracy. Now Congress must save it. 

Aug 6, 2013 / Ari Berman

Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

Rich guys buy newspapers. Often. But when Reince Priebus makes programming demands on major networks, that's a real measure of the corruption of our democratic discourse.

Aug 6, 2013 / John Nichols

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