For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality.
Margaret Peterson Haddix’s historical novel Uprising provides a valuable resource for those of us interested in engaging our students in their real-life drama
State University of New York employees are reeling from the union contract negotiated between the faculty union (the United University Professions) and the
Last month in Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have required corporate retailers with sales
This summer I had the privilege of co-coordinating an NEH Landmark grant at one of the Great Camps in the Adirondacks. Over a
The battle against teachers and their unions seemed to crescendo last year during Chicago’s teacher strike. The mainstream media had a field day
President Obama presented his budget proposal in the face of sequestration, the effects of which are slowly making their way into federal programs
All week I’ve been glued to coverage regarding our drone policy and the leak of documents rationalizing U.S. government policies surrounding their use.
I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on
In the heat of a presidential election, I can’t help but be one of those people. You know, the ones who forward on