Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘1776 The Musical’ vocalizes the urgency of the Declaration of Independence
January 16, 2019Now is your chance to “be in the room where it actually happened,” Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, in the stiflingly hot months from May 8 to July 4, 1776.
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L.A. teachers strike: Wearing red for ed on rainy Day One
January 15, 2019This strike is for the students – and for their entitlement to the kind of education that will properly prepare them for life in the decades ahead.
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Los Angeles braces itself for a teachers strike Monday morning
January 11, 2019Only the highly visible public drama of a District-wide strike will draw sufficient attention to the multiplicity of problems, many of them of a fiscal nature, that plague public education.
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RBG hits the big screen again in ‘On the Basis of Sex’
January 9, 2019Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has so many fervent admirers, she’s practically become a cottage industry in America.
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‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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Saying “Enough is enough!” Los Angeles teachers set strike date
December 21, 2018A line has been drawn in the sand. All eyes are now set on Jan. 10, 2019.
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Wealth, poverty in Zacatecas: Two sides of the same silver coin
December 18, 2018Irony runs deep in Zacatecas: The state’s Latin motto is “Labor vincit omnia”—Work conquers all, including its people.
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Preparing the base for Mexico’s new president
December 13, 2018“We’re in the middle of a battle. We need not just generals, but an army."
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