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The Campaign to Destroy Public Schools | Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books

“It is called ‘school choice,’ but the schools choose, not the students or families.”

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03.02.2025

The Many Wars in Darfur | Jérôme Tubiana | The New York Review of Books

In February 2004, a year after the rebellion broke out in Darfur, government-backed Arab militias known as the Janjaweed (“devil horsemen”) attacked As a civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces rages across Sudan, Arab and non-Arab communities are once again fighting in Darfur.

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