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My Comment At The New York Times Website Today | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Nov. 1, 2017 PENASCO, New Mexico -- I think it telling that Congressional Republicans are expressing more concern about children being in the United States illegall ...

Winning and Lying | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2017 I recently read a long essay in the New York Times Sunday magazine about a young lady, Noura Jackson, who spent nine years in jail because of prosecut ...

Sticks, Stones, and Nukes redux again… | Emanuele Corso

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Source: Wikipedia Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust July 26, 2017 I published the essay, “Sticks, Stones, and Nukes,” several ...

It’s A Scam | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust June 3, 2017 Over the past several years, public education and public school teachers have become the whipping boys for everyone from presidents of the United State ...

He Got A Bad Grade. So, He Got The Constitution Amended. | Matt Largey

Gregory Watson went on a mission after getting a C on a paper in government class. JORGE SANHUEZA-LYON / KUT March 21, 2017 (KUT) -- With everything that’s going on in politics these days, it helps t ...

'Enemies Foreign And Domestic' | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust April 10, 2017 Jean Piaget, one of the foremost experts in the field of children’s learning explained that in some “there is an absence of the desire to find logica ...

The “Transmission Belts” Of Misinformation | Emanuele Corso

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more ...

The Notion of Democracy | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Feb. 2, 2017 Democracy in the United States has become notional. Perhaps it has always been this way and we simply haven’t noticed. Our beliefs are always either ev ...

Thoughts on 'It Can’t Happen Here' | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartened, to say the least, and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments an ...

Nothing fundamentally wrong with US public education | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 19, 2017 There is nothing fundamentally wrong with public education in the United States; it is not the monster right-wing millionaires and their on-a-leash po ...

Education’s Challenge: Don’t Play It Again Sam! | Emanuele Corso

Heron. Nimbus Park, Oregon. By Keith Todd. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Nov. 4, 2016 First a bit of history. I wrote this essay in 1971 when I was at the time finishing ...