The new age articles
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Mammograms Should Start at Age 40, New Guidelines Say
Women should begin screening for breast cancer a decade earlier than previously recommended.
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Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone...
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New York's New Budget
WNYC / Gothamist Albany reporter Jon Campbell talks about what's in and what's out of the just-approved New York State budget, including housing incentives, zoning changes, limited tenant protections, mayoral control of the schools, and more.