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For too long, liberals have failed to recognize education for what it truly is: not merely a service or a tool for…
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian…
Stoked by vitriolic political rhetoric spread by the right and increasingly left unchallenged by leading Democratic politicians, the normalization of a hostile…
At a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump invoked a chilling convergence of law, order, and violence—a cornerstone of what can only…
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