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Voters Head To Polls In AZ, FL, OK Primary elections in AZ & FL, OK runoff. Vox: "Tuesday brings some of the most anticipated primary elections of 2018 when Arizona and Florida go to the polls. Voters will also finally decide who the Republican nominee for...
It’s Time To Fight Like Hell To End Our Overdose Crisis
Our country’s overdose crisis kills more people every day than gun violence, suicides, and traffic accidents. Even more shocking is that these lives could be saved – yet we fail to act. Our government’s failure to save lives, when it knows how, is the greatest...
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Judge Issues Rebuke To Trump On Federal Workers Trump’s power to fire federal workers curtailed by judge. NYT: "A federal district judge in Washington struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that President Trump signed in late May that would...
Kavanaugh Threatens the Supreme Court's Legitimacy
Will no Senator put conscience and Constitution ahead of partisan efforts to ramrod the lifetime appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court?
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Georgia GOP Tries To Curtail Black Voting Majority-black Georgia county fires consultant who wants to close two-thirds of its polling places. WaPo: "Officials in Randolph County, Ga., have fired the consultant whose proposal to close two-thirds of the polling places...
Why Do Corporate Boards So Overpay U.S. CEOs?
Corporate boards are asking us to blame sky-high CEO pay on the laws of supply and demand. The actual arithmetic tells a completely different story. So let's focus on the real problems -- and real solutions, like the notion of a maximum wage.
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U.S. Escalates Trade War With China US and China escalate trade war as total sum levied reaches $100bn. The Guardian: "The US and China have escalated their ongoing trade war by implementing 25% tariffs on $16bn worth of imports on both sides, bringing the amount...
Progressives May End Education's 'Funding Vs. Accountability' War
On the front lines of this year's political campaigns, there is evidence of a sea change in education thinking that may finally break out of the funding versus accountability debate to find a more holistic vision of what schools and students need.
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Top Trump Advisors Are Now Felons The worst hour of Donald Trump's presidency just happened. CNN: "Two massive clouds that have been hanging over Donald Trump's presidency for months broke open almost simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon -- and poured rain all over the...
There's a Way to Make Corporations Work for Workers, Too
U.S. corporations and executives often assume they have only one responsibility, to fill their own pockets. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act would change that, by bringing workers into the boardroom, and keeping executives from using stock buybacks to enrich themselves.
