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Kansas

Cutting School in Kansas

The state Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of Kansas public-school funding

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Wil S. Hylton’s “Broken Heartland” (2012)

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

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Our Town

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

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Contest of Words

High school debate and the demise of public speech

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Weekly Review

The world economy continued its collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 22 percent over eight days, Wall Street lost $2.4 trillion in market value, and Iceland went bankrupt.CNNBusiness WeekThe…

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Weekly Review

The Cloaca Maxima, 1872 Congress passed a bill allocating $100 billion for war spending without a timetable for troop withdrawal. CongressionalDemocrats allowed the vote to reach the House and Senate…

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Weekly Review

Former CIA Director George Tenet published a book accusing the Bush Administration of taking his phrase “slam dunk”â??referring to intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destructionâ??out of context…

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