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What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it?
Dean Paton | Feb 20, 2015
More and more people have come to understand that behaving as if they hold all rights to Earth’s bounty amounts to an eighth deadly sin.
Dean Paton | Feb 18, 2015
47 million Americans live beneath the official poverty line, under a daily judgment of failure. The question today is: Whose failure?
Dean Paton | Aug 29, 2014
Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?
Dean Paton | Aug 21, 2014
When it comes to stopping NSA surveillance, it may be more effective to write to Facebook and Google than to government officials.
Dean Paton | Jun 24, 2014
In the rush to privatize the country’s schools,
corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed
the blame on teachers and students.
Dean Paton | Feb 22, 2014
Teachers at two Seattle high schools violated district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation are ready to stand up, too.
Dean Paton | Jan 15, 2013