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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...
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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,...
How Trump and the GOP's SCOTUS Screw Workers
Many have observed, correctly, that the Supreme Court’s recent 5 to 4 decision upholding forced arbitration for employees is a “devastating blow” to the rights of working people. This decision by the court’s conservative majority will affect an estimated 60 million...
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Women Candidates Surge in Primaries Women surging in Democratic politics for 2018, 2020. Axios: "The biggest trend in midterm Democratic politics is women kicking ass, a sign of energy and momentum for women presidential candidates in 2020. Why it matters: Women are...
Cynthia Nixon Takes On the Test-And-Punish Regime
One way New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is challenging voters - and her rival, incumbent Andrew Cuomo - is by pushing to end the unfair and inaccurate rating of teachers based on how their students score on standardized tests.
