Month: May 2006
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Twenty-First Century Wiretapping
The revelation that the National Security Agency has been wiretapping communications crossing the U.S. border (and possibly within the U.S.), without warrants, has started many angry conversations across the country, and rightly so. Here is an issue that challenges our most basic conception of the purposes of government and its relation to citizens. Today I…
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Return to Monkey High
Newsweek has released its annual list of America’s top high schools, using the same flawed formula as last year. Here’s what I wrote then: Here is Newsweek’s formula: “Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement and/or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students at a…