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Trump Bid For Border 'Crisis' Falls Flat A seemingly invincible communicator finds his kryptonite in prime time. Politico: "For President Trump, a prime-time presidential address to the nation was a radical experiment in conventionality. The first results back from...
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Freedom For Cyntoia Brown Brown is granted clemency after serving 15 years in prison. CNN: "Cyntoia Denise Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was 16 years old, has been granted clemency, the Tennessee governor's...
Prices, Plutocrats, and Corporate Concentration
Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to be a working economist. Other lawmakers may spend their spare hours making cold calls for campaign cash. Leigh spends his doing research — on why our modern economies are leaving...
Progressive Breakfast
Shutdown May Force Evictions, End To Food Aid As shutdown drags on, Trump officials make new offer, seek novel ways to cope with its impacts. WaPo: "Trump administration officials began taking extraordinary steps to contain the fallout from the partial federal...
Trump's Delusion About the Wall That Never Was
Three weeks have passed since Donald Trump shut down much of the government because Congress won’t give him $5.6 billion in taxpayer money to build 200 miles of his illusory Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There...
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House, Senate At Odds Over Border Wall House passes stopgap funding bill with $5 billion for Trump's border wall, at odds with Senate. NBC: "The House passed a stopgap measure Thursday night to fund the government that includes $5 billion for a border wall sought by...
Showing Up at the Border for Our Shared Humanity
Two thousand years ago, a young mother and father fled for their lives and left everything behind for the safety of their child. Their names were Mary and Joseph. I can’t help but think what would happen to this migrant family and their brown-skinned baby at our...
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Last-Minute Deal Averts Shutdown Senate passes stopgap spending bill that would avert shutdown. NYT: "Moving to head off a looming government shutdown, the Senate passed a stopgap spending bill on Wednesday night that would keep the government funded through Feb. 8 —...
Justice Demands We Free Cyntoia Brown
The facts of the case are simply horrifying: Cyntoia Brown was a child of 16 in Nashville, Tennessee when she was sex-trafficked by a pimp named “Kut-throat.” Just days after being repeatedly drugged and raped by different men, a 43-year-old real estate agent...
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Senate May Deny Wall, Avert Shutdown Senate to pass bill that would keep government open, deny Trump wall funding. WaPo: "The Senate intends to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open through Feb. 8 but deny President Trump the money he...
