Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do

The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.

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...

These are the corporations behind Trump’s Muslim ban

While it is important to hold our public officials accountable for their role in promoting the Muslim ban, we cannot stop there.

Growing my way out of dystopia

Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?

NPR falsely claims its reporter is the only one to visit Nicaragua

This led into a harrowing story of how its reporter arrived in Nicaragua…and reported without incident.

Follow Alabama’s lead on child care

If one of our poorest states can rise to meet this basic human need, why can’t Congress?

A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing

One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”

Breitbart’s Kris Kobach suggests deporting DACA recipients and their parents to keep families together

“If we’re worried about keeping families together, then the illegal alien parents who brought them here should also be removed to the home country along with the DACA recipient alien.”

The coronavirus crash could be worse than the republican great depression of 1930

If we succeed in rebooting American manufacturing through the measures used by Hamilton (and emulated by China over the past 30 years), our recovery from this crisis could mark a new dawn for the American middle class.

What school segregation looks like in the US today, in 4 charts

"All regions of our country and rural and metropolitan areas alike have changing patterns of segregation that demand the public’s attention and action."