Truthdigger of the Week: Baltimore Mayoral Candidate DeRay Mckesson

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Feb 14, 2016 The Black Lives Matter activist (at right in photo)—whose political campaign is off to an attention-grabbing start—seeks to tackle the issues of police brutality and criminal justice through education and employment. The Black Lives Matter activist (at right in photo)—whose political campaign is off to an attention-grabbing start—seeks to tackle the issues of police brutality and criminal justice through education and employment. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

10,000 Migrant Children Missing in Europe, EU Police Agency Says

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Feb 1, 2016 Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, says gangs throughout Europe are targeting young migrants for sex work and slavery. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Oct 23, 2015 A kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults take on the role of unthinking children while children are subject to a range of disciplinary pressures that saddle them with debt and cripple their ability to be imaginative. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

Schools as Punishing Factories: The Handcuffing of Public Education

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Aug 6, 2015 If one important measure of a democracy is how a society treats its children -- especially children of color, poor and working-class youth, and those with disabilities -- there can be little doubt that the United States is failing. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Student Loan Calculator

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South Korean Parents Will Be Required to Have Government-Approved Spyware on Teens’ Smartphones

Roisin Davis / Truthdig May 19, 2015 It appears that South Korea is playing Orwellian catch-up with its security-obsessed northern neighbor. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Does Math Have in Common With Art and Music?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 18, 2014 Neurobiological studies show that mathematical formulas stimulate the same parts of the brain as music and art do; a writer questions our surveillance nightmares; meanwhile, gay youth find solace on the Internet. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Brazil’s ‘Rolezinhos’ Want a Place at the Table

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 8, 2014 Huge numbers of youths from Brazil's new middle class -- raised in shanty towns but educated in public universities -- are congregating in shopping malls where they feel closest to the consumerist dream. And due to police repression, they're becoming spontaneous expressions of public hope, frustration and yearning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Freedom of Speech a Casualty of Official Response to Student Drinking

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 20, 2013 (Updated) Professors at my hometown university are silent as city and college officials seek blood after a beer-fueled clash between students and police. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Educational Deficit and the War on Youth

By Leslie Thatcher & Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jun 20, 2013 Professor and cultural critic Henry A. Giroux responded in an interview to questions concerning varieties of pedagogy and fundamentalism, markets, and the prospects for public schools raised by his latest book, "America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth." Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

Huck Finn

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Disposable Youth in Dark Times

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 13, 2013 Neoliberal capitalism values young people only as commodities, social philosopher Henry Giroux says, and teachers, whose work is to encourage the growth of minds, have some of the best opportunities to defend them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )