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Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Alan Singer | Posted 05.23.2012

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Alan Singer

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

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Are Boy Bylines Better Than Girl Bylines?

Michele Weldon | Posted 04.08.2012

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Michele Weldon

Do we have to resort to using initials in our bylines so our gender is hidden in order to get published, lauded, hired or promoted?

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Dear Rush Limbaugh: I Know You Are But What Am I?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.06.2012

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Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Real progress will happen when grown-ups no longer choose to listen to grown men behaving like children, or defend grown men behaving like children on the grounds that it's "entertaining."

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Right-Wing Media Joins Left in Gitmo Outrage

David Tereshchuk | Posted 05.05.2012

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David Tereshchuk

Cases previously handled by military tribunals -- there have been just six convictions gained among 800 Gitmo prisoners in 10 years -- have created legal infamy.

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Polarization and Algorithms

Richard Geldard | Posted 05.01.2012

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Richard Geldard

The effect of algorithmic control this political season has resulted in an increase in polarization. The result is that increasingly we grow to despise the other side.

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Robin Wilkey

WATCH: Arrested Mother Jones Reporter Talks To Current TV

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 02.01.2012

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On Monday, San Francisco's own Mother Jones reporter Gavin Aronsen appeared on Current TV with Cenk Uygur to discuss his recent arrest at Saturday's O...

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Oil and Herring Don't Mix

Carl Safina | Posted 03.18.2012

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Carl Safina

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, it unleashed a regional catastrophe whose effects continue to play out these two decades later. One such apparent effect was the subsequent collapse of the region's herring.

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The Causes of Systemic Disasters

Robert Teitelman | Posted 03.12.2012

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Robert Teitelman

The popular response to 2008 and what has followed is to focus on the single cause -- subprime, deregulation, globalization, greed, compensation -- and fail to separate out precipitating factors from less satisfying, more complex and ambiguous causes.

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My Mother: "God Damn It James, I Raised You Better Than That!"

Jim Luce | Posted 02.10.2012

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Jim Luce

My mother's words still ring out in my head, year after year. It was Thanksgiving 1998, Boston. I was continuing to complain about how traumatized I...

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Stand Up to Pesticides

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.29.2012

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Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Until recently the EPA has considered atrazine, the second-most widely used pesticide in the U.S. "non-carcinogenic." Last week, however, findings were released with "strong" epidemiological evidence linking the pesticide to various cancers.

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The Gutsiest Campus Newspapers Of 2011

Mother Jones | —Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.20.2011

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Whether they were covering the Alabama tornadoes in depth, pissing off James Franco, or exposing undercover drug busts, these campus newspapers boldly...

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The GOP's Genius Plan To Beat Obama In 2012

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2011

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Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania are pushing a scheme that, if GOPers in other states follow their lead, could cause President Barack Obam...

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Fox News Viewers: Discrimination Against Whites Is As Big A Problem

Mother Jones | Posted 11.07.2011

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Two-thirds of viewers who say Fox News is the news source they trust most believe discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination ...

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LGBTQ Kids In Foster Care Struggle To Find Homes

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 10.05.2011

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Robyn Gee Foster care youth are three...

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Bill McKibben On 'The Biggest Crisis That Humans Have Ever Faced'

Mother Jones | Posted 09.13.2011

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When we talk about global warming, much of the debate centers on separating facts from fluff, and environmental activist and Mother Jones contributor ...

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'Mass Psychosis In The U.S.'

Al Jazeera | James Ridgeway | Posted 09.13.2011

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Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with...

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The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more

The Media Consortium | Posted 07.17.2011

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The Media Consortium

Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion.

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Climategate: What Really Happened?

Mother Jones | Posted 06.21.2011

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IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE how a guy who spends most of his time looking at endless columns of temperature records became a "fucking terrorist," "kille...

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Weekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.20.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors ...

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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The Wavelength: The Battle Over Net Neutrality Rages On

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.18.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Four months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supposedly settled the issue, the battle ove...

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Weekly Mulch: Cost-Cutting at the Environment's Peril

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.15.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger In Washington, the environment is under attack. The cost-cutting deal that the House passed yesterday strip...

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Weekly Audit: Government Shutdown Averted, But At What Cost?

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.12.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night,...

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Weekly Pulse: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.06.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan's program would pr...

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Weekly Audit: Republicans' Budget Declares War on Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.05.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by ...

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