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EducationIf you want to stand with Dan Jones, here’s what you can do
Don't take the unjustified firing of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones lying down.
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AnalysisTen things you should know about Mississippi’s tax cut plans
Will the Legislature mortgage the state's long-term fiscal health for an election year boost? Check back for updates.
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"Honest Mississippi"‘My Mississippi, Your Mississippi, and Our Mississippi’
The following speech by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves -- Mississippi's second African American federal judge -- has been shared widely since it was read in his courtroom?on February 10. The occasion was a sentencing hearing for the perpetrators of a modern-day lynching: the brutal murder of James Craig...
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AnalysisWhat does the Legislature’s alternative mean for Initiative 42?
It makes it harder to pass. Plain and simple.
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AnalysisThese are the countries with lower infant mortality rates than Mississippi
Nearly 10 out of every 1,000 children do not survive their first year of life, making Mississippi one of the riskiest places to be born in the developed world.
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CommentaryCommentary: Will Gov. Bryant’s poverty plans ever go beyond ‘welfare junkies’ and ‘dice-shooting deadbeats’?
The governor of the country's poorest state has exhausted all the stereotpyes about poverty. This is his last legislative session before reelection to address the needs of real people.
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Editor's BlogStephen Colbert’s best Mississippi-themed segments
Even when "The Colbert Report" hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.
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Child Well-BeingThe myth that allows Mississippi to ignore a third of its children
The handful of Mississippians who have risen from poverty to prominence occupy more space in our imaginations -- and our TVs, books, blogs, etc. -- than combined stories of the 256,000 Mississippi children currently living in poverty.
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Editor's BlogEgg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?
Mississippi's football success is getting very, very expensive.
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FeaturesHistory says Mississippi can’t have two good SEC football teams at the same time. Has that changed?
During a season in which Mississippi boasted two of the country's top three college football teams, we explore the question that has frustrated Rebels and Bulldogs for a century.
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Editor's BlogMississippi produces the most ‘geniuses’ in the South
Mississippians win MacArthur "Genius Grants" at a higher rate than residents of any other Southern state. What, if anything, does that say about us?
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Editor's BlogTo prevent a ‘license to discriminate,’ don’t let anti-LGBT judges run unopposed
This week's same-sex marriage ruling from Rankin County shows the hostility to LGBT rights among some of Mississippi's elected judges.
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EducationSound, fury, and the burden of Mississippi history
As Faulkner instructs, the past is never dead. But lingering Confederate sympathy among Mississippians ? flaring in the wake of the University of Mississippi's diversity and inclusion report ? proves that it is often misremembered.
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Editor's BlogIf you watch only one online video today, make sure it’s this one
John Oliver takes on America's broken prison system, with one particularly egregious example from right here in Mississippi.
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