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Nov 1, 2024 · Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright October 10, 2024. Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
Why Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
Kwame Nkrumah and the Quest for Independence - Dissent …
In seeking this liberation, Nkrumah urged fellow African nationalists to follow the Ghanaian example and “seek ye first the political kingdom” and secure “complete independence and sovereignty.”. Then and now, this nationalist aspiration for complete independence inspires skepticism, suspicion, even disdain. Writing in 1960, Elie ...
Ten Years Later: The 9/11 Photo That Changed America
Sep 8, 2011 · Nicolaus Mills ▪ September 8, 2011 . As we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11, no picture is harder or more important to look at again than photographer Richard Drew’s The Falling Man.More than any other photo from that day, The Falling Man captures the horror of 9/11 and explains the politics of fear that followed from it. The picture, taken from the corner of Vesey and West ...
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
We were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
Oct 10, 2014 · Lessons from the Salt March. Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory. Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 10, 2014. Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence. History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s ...
Howard Zinn's History Lessons - Dissent Magazine
Michael Kazin Spring 2004. Every work of history, according to Howard Zinn, is a political document. He titled his thick survey A People’s History so that no potential reader would wonder about his own point of view: “With all its limitations, it is a history disrespectful of governments and respectful of people’s movements of resistance.”.
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
The main problem with free college is that most students come from disproportionately well-off backgrounds and already enjoy disproportionately well-off futures, which makes them relatively uncompelling targets for public transfers. At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend ...
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
Michael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open …
The Economy During Wartime - Dissent Magazine
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 392 pp. During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy. Strategic resources were produced in quantities set in Washington, and allocated among end users by the public officials sitting on the War Production Board. Key prices and wages were administered, not left to markets.