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How racist is the “war on drugs”? Very. And if the nation’s capital is any indication, it’s actually getting worse. The Washington City Paper reports that from 2005 to 2011, 91 percent of DC marijuana charges were filed against African Americans. Meanwhile, just six percent were filed against the city’s white residents. And it’s not […]
Education “reformers” are seeing their privatization dreams come true as mass public school closings spread from one city to the next. Chicago is currently ground zero for this scheme with 54 schools slated for closing this year in what the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss called “the largest mass district closing of schools ever in the […]
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