Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 25, 2018
Poor People's Campaign marches on Washington, Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is kicked out of a restaurant, and more.
A path to freedom? Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal wins chance to reargue appeal in 1981...
On Thursday, a Philadelphia judge ruled Abu-Jamal can reargue his appeal in the case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Bernie Sanders’ minimum wage bill would improve the lives of 40 million Americans
The Raise the Wage Act "would eliminate decades of growing wage inequality between the lowest-paid and the typical U.S. worker."
Jockpocalypse
From the ballpark to team Trump.
The six ways football groomed us for President Trump
Still going to watch the Super Bowl?
Change and decay: A time of transition
Ancient divisions are being strengthened, new divisions fermented, injustices highlighted; under the action of cleavage all are being drawn to the polluted surface of human affairs.
Welcome to the Martians!
Or will we truly find ourselves living in Trumptopia?
MLK Day special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice.
The theocratic scourge when a fundamentalist minority wars against diverse, majority rule politics
What the savvy Founders elevated was an enlightened chain of being that linked freedom, secular democracy and the exclusion of a state religion.
The Republican Trumpless Debate
Fox News hosted its Republican debate last week without Donald Trump. So how did it go?