Prisoners to reenact murders for a good cause

Prison Performing Arts is a seventeen-year-old, multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children.  The organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of adults and young people in the Missouri criminal and juvenile justice systems.  The organization fosters individual and social change by providing current and…

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The idea of a benevolent “Free Market” is exposed as a dangerous fraud

At a Salon.com article entitled "The corporate financiers are wrong," Joe Conason says the obvious about "free market" fanatics because it is necessary to say the obvious about "free market" fanatics, given that they've been so successful at promulgating their drivel.  What is the obvious thing we now need to…

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Dangerous safety signs

In this month's Wilson Quarterly, you can read Tom Vanderbilt's delightful story about a Dutch traffic engineer  who made a town safer by making the people feel unsafe. In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then…

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