Best Journalism Of The Week (September 24-30, 2016)

Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer who has created several long-running blogs such as the national news site This Week In Education, District 299 (about Chicago schools), and LA School Report. He can be reached on Twitter at @alexanderrusso, on Facebook, or directly at alexanderrusso@gmail.com.
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Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker have a plan for fixing capitalism: “market humanism.”
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Leon Panetta, the last of the wise men, covers the waterfront on where we are and where we must go to save this country.
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All signs point to a Blue Wave, and they may need every drop to overcome recent gerrymandering woes and likely presidential scheming.
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Theo Baker’s debut book is a film-worthy investigation of Stanford’s culture of fraud. But his disdain for the tech bros keeps him from understanding them.
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The Founders’ understanding of national prayer centered on self-scrutiny and repentance, neither of which seem fashionable in today’s Republican Party.
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It’s not socialism. Public factories are an old American answer to monopoly profiteering. The Progressive Caucus wants to bring them back.
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“Market humanism” is how the economy should work, argue Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker.
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