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Here’s why charter schools in Pa., elsewhere aren’t as ‘public’ as they claim they are | Opinion
Charter schools are not as accessible to the public as they are often made out to be
Congress must make a continued difference in the lives of youth in foster care | Opinion
More than 20,000 young people are at risk of being forced out of foster care and being immediately cut off from services that will expire after today
Here’s what Ledewitz missed on the National Popular Vote campaign | Opinion
It is not surprising that most Americans want to elect their president by popular vote. It is as direct as our democracy gets.
Manchin’s support for nat.gas could derail Biden’s climate goals. Here’s how | Opinion
The federal budget isn’t the end game. It’s only one step. This bill has to be about financial incentives and penalties
The ‘Jerry Rescue’ 170 years later: And its lessons for modern racial justice | Michael Coard
The moral of the story (for me, at least) is this: “When the law is unjust, the just must break the law — by any means necessary.”
When baseball is like economics: A wealth tax is a home run | Marty Marks
People who benefit more from the system reasonably can be expected to pay more for the advantages the system begets.
More Americans couldn’t get enough to eat in 2020. The middle class was hit hardest | Opinion
Food insufficiency rates rose across the board, researchers who analyzed government data found. But food banks did help.
Here’s how to turbocharge an inclusive clean energy revolution | Opinion
We have a chance to reinvent the world: a world of beauty and abundance and collective good, with jobs that respect human dignity.
Utilities need to think differently to avoid long power outages after disasters | Opinion
Building even more power poles and transmission lines won’t avert outages when major disasters strike.
Why doesn’t Pa. support equal pay for equal work for disability support workers? | Opinion
The state has federal stimulus money to make it happen. It should spend it.
Eastman memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup | Jay S. Bookman
This is not a storm that has passed. This is at best the eye of the hurricane, the deceiving pause before the storm resumes.
Without action on climate change, Hurricane Ida is just the beginning | Opinion
Without swift and substantial action to reduce methane and carbon emissions, we’re on a dangerous track to deadlier and more frequent natural disasters.