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50 Years After 1968, Can the Young Change Politics? A Striking New Poll Says Yes
Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and opportunity, pain and promise. The young were a powerful force, even a world-changing one. Could they become that force...
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Trump Not Above The Law Trump’s lawyer is dead wrong on obstruction of justice. Just Security: "The Declaration of Independence charged King George III with 'obstruct[ing] the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to the laws for establishing judiciary...
Iowans for Glasson: We Are What Democracy Looks Like
Iowans do things their own way - especially when it comes to politics. I know: I’m born and raised in Cedar Rapids, and am a first-generation freshman at Grinnell College, a liberal arts school in the center of the state whose progressive roots reach back to the...
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U.S. Slaps Allies With Tariffs Angry allies plan to retaliate over U.S. trade tariffs. MarketWatch: "The U.S. will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union starting on Friday, the Trump administration said, raising the...
Join Us To Keep Families Together
It’s not right. Infants are being taken from their mothers. Families are being separated, and parents charged as criminals for sheltering children from violence. These courageous parents are doing the right thing. They’re protecting their children the only way they...
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How Trump Stacks Courts For Conservative Causes Donald Trump is weaponising the courts for political ends. The Guardian: "It was a startling omission even according to the peculiar moral norms of the Trump era. When Wendy Vitter, one of the US president’s judicial...
New Charter School Plan Should Alarm the Nation
Charter schools already have a segregation problem. But a new law about to pass in North Carolina would direct even more taxpayer money into funding charter schools that by design, if not by intent, lead to more racial segregation of school children. This is not only...
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Poor People's Campaign Protests Inequality Poor People’s Campaign is the angry response to inequality America needs. HuffPost: "Two Mondays ago, a bunch of dedicated rabble-rousers launched a new Poor People’s Campaign. Thousands demonstrated in Washington, D.C.,...
U.S. CEOs Are World's Best - For Themselves
U.S. chief execs don’t just make significantly more than their peers in other nations. The corporations they run pay their workers significantly less.
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How Gorsuch Upends SCOTUS Votes Little Scalia: How Neil Gorsuch divides Washington and the Supreme Court. NYM: "In late February 2018, like stagehands striking and rebuilding a set, the Supreme Court did it all over again. The case it heard was nearly identical,...
