Thursday, April 25, 2024

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law urge officials to withdraw law enforcement, National...

“We are sounding an alarm regarding the potential deployment of the National Guard, state police and local law enforcement on Tuesday as voters prepare to cast ballots in primary elections."

2016 as prologue, not aberration

Our media is strangling our democracy, and without a course correction it will only get worse.

ALEC Sets the table for gerrymandering, union busting, protecting fossil fuels, and privatizing schools

A breakdown of ALEC’s menu of policy proposals at the New Orleans conference.
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Civil rights hero John Lewis remembered at funeral as ‘patriot who risked his life’...

“a true American patriot who risked his life and bled for the hope and promise of democracy.”

3 big ways that the US will change over the next decade

Hispanics and the other racial minorities will be the country’s main demographic engine of population change in future years; this is the most significant demographic change Americans will see.

The billionaire playbook: How sports owners use their teams to avoid millions in taxes

Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower tax rates than players and even stadium workers.

American exceptionalism on full display

Why this country might want to lower its expectations.

Media don’t factcheck right-wing migration myths

Right-wing media figures and Republican politicians get little pushback when they promote evidence-free, often absurd claims about incentives for unauthorized immigration.

NBA Superstar Ray Allen to Open Organic Fast-Food Restaurant

Ray Allen and his wife, Shannon Allen, are launching an organic fast-food restaurant in Miami called Grown.

‘The greatest purveyor of violence in the world’

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."