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  • Education

    If 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.

    March 21, 2015
  • Analysis

    Ten 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.

    March 17, 2015
  • "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...

    February 20, 2015
  • Analysis

    What does the Legislature’s alternative mean for Initiative 42?

    It makes it harder to pass. Plain and simple.

    January 13, 2015
  • Analysis

    These 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.

    January 8, 2015
  • Commentary

    Commentary: 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.

    January 5, 2015
  • Editor's Blog

    Stephen Colbert’s best Mississippi-themed segments

    Even when "The Colbert Report" hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.

    December 18, 2014
  • Child Well-Being

    The 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.

    October 21, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Egg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?

    Mississippi's football success is getting very, very expensive.

    October 13, 2014
  • Features

    History 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.

    October 5, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Mississippi 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?

    September 18, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    To 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.

    August 15, 2014
  • Education

    Sound, 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.

    August 14, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    If 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.

    July 24, 2014
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