Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, October 3
D.C. Democrats vote to overturn tipped wage increase approved by voters, Bernie Sanders issues a statement on Amazon's minimum wage increase, Trump makes fun of Kavanaugh accuser and more.
Former Neo-Nazi: President Trump may be complicit in growing threat of white supremacy
"This is not an isolated incident. This is not a fringe problem. This is a transnational terrorist alliance."
Amerika 2019: A Woody Allen film?
In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the...
What an American terrorist looks like
“Invasion.” President Trump has used that very word about immigration at the southern border 19 times at rallies since he took office,...
The battle for hearts and minds: RT, WikiLeaks and net neutrality
The ongoing battle to maintain net neutrality is perhaps the most important free speech issue facing the United States, if not the West as a whole.
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US
"Why is it acceptable for the United States to have the power to even begin to give even a proposal to extradite somebody whose crime is to expose to the public materials that people in power don’t want them to see?"
No justice for consumers in Equifax probe?
Equifax continues to be under investigation from the Federal Trade Commission and faces more than 240 class action lawsuits.
A new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it
We are no longer the “indispensable” nation.
How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by one
After years of working as a sheriff’s deputy and a car dealership manager, John Ingrum used his savings to buy a farm...
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...