
The Human Cost of LGBTQ Book Bans
Banning kids from learning about themselves and each other isn’t just ineffective — it’s cruel.
Banning kids from learning about themselves and each other isn’t just ineffective — it’s cruel.
The acclaimed author and activist had a 40-year history with the Institute for Policy Studies, first as a staff member and later as a project leader and board member.
I borrowed modestly, worked on campus, and still had to skip meals to make loan payments — and I was one of the lucky ones.
Lawmakers are filling schools with police and viciously targeting students and teachers. How are kids supposed to learn?
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Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.
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But it needs to be a first step, not the last.
The Biden administration will be spending hundreds of billions of dollars on addressing the climate crisis. But what does that mean for communities around the United States?
Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.
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The human cost of Manchin’s threat to kill the Build Back Better Act.
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