Americans are horrified by DHS plan to track immigrants on social media
The government is turning Facebook into a new kind of surveillance tool. Engadget
New approaches to same old problems at Sewerage and Water Board: This week’s coastal news. Nola.com
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Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet? The intercept
Americans Have Given Up on Public Schools. That’s a Mistake.
The current debate over public education underestimates its value—and forgets its purpose.
Benjamin Barber warned in 2004 that “America as a commercial society of individual consumers may survive the destruction of public schooling. America as a democratic republic cannot.” In this era of growing fragmentation, we urgently need a renewed commitment to the idea that public education is a worthy investment, one that pays dividends not only to individual families but to our society as a whole. The atlantic