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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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Editor's BlogYou’ve probably benefited from Gov. William Winter’s education reforms. Now’s your chance to see how they happened.
Watch this trailer for an upcoming documentary about Gov. Winter's remarkable life and achievements.
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Editor's BlogHow the Common Core literacy standards could have improved this anti-Common Core Facebook post
All Mississippians could benefit from the rigorous new literacy standards.
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AnalysisFifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
More than one-fourth of Mississippi public schools are at least 90 percent black. Another tenth are at least 90 percent white. And, just as in 1964, students in those identifiably black schools receive an inferior education.