Tag: critical race theory
‘Race to the bottom’: GOP has introduced 72 educational gag orders...
"They have outdone one another in a race to the bottom, finding new, more extreme, and more conspiratorial ways to impose censorious government dictates on teaching and learning."
“Libs of TikTok” and the right’s war on public education
This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.
The far right’s manufactured meaning of Critical Race Theory
They’ve deliberately manufactured a set of caricatures to make the public—mainly the white public—feel threatened.
How not to cover critical race theory
Critical race theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, but the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.
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25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger
Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.