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Flint's Crisis Reveals National Failure On School 'Leadership'
Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by the state’s governor made the infamous decision to supply lead-tainted water to the public. But long before Flint’s water...
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MORNING MESSAGE Sameena Mustafa Real People Will Lead the Way to #MedicareForAll Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’ group in the United States. But in 78-year-old Reggie...
Real People Will Lead the Way to #MedicareForAll
Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’ group in the United States. But in 78-year-old Reggie Griffin, the American Medical Association met their match. “The time is up for us...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Can Business Really Put People Before Profits? Last Monday, 181 corporate CEOs who belong to the Business Roundtable signed a pledge saying they think greed isn’t so good, after all. These CEOs declared that corporations must demonstrate...
Can Business Put People Before Profits?
Jamie Dimon and friends. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Financial Times / cc Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most famous for his phrase: “greed is good.” Last Monday,...
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MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl Trump’s Reelection Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not...
Trump's Reelection Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other
You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration, or...
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MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati We Need What Canada Has: Economic Security South of the border, here in the United States, we Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national...
We Need What Canada Has: Economic Security
Average Canadians may or may not not have more fun than their American counterparts. They certainly, a new study shows, have more income.
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MORNING MESSAGE Connie Huynh It’s Time to Put #PeopleOverPharma From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People’s Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand Congress and Trump put #PeopleOverPharma profits. “They’re jacking up...
