• Public employees’ strikes, like the Chicago teachers strike, get lots of media attention, but they’re surprisingly rare. Melissa Maynard of Stateline explains why. 
• Super-Predators, ‘Wilding’, and the Central Park Five: Thoughts on rape, racism, media, and the Central Park Jogger case. (via Post Bourgie)
• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to turn over millions of acres of public land for private profit, writes Tim Egan in the New York Times.
• More than 100,000 aging lifers are expected to die in prison in the coming years, James Ridgeway of Mother Jones reports on the medical and moral costs of keeping them locked up. 

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