Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 5, 2018
Protests at the Statue of Liberty, a neo-Nazi has governmental security status, the Supreme Court rules against unions, and more.
Can inequality be hardwired into our DNA?
We need more than a moratorium on making inheritable edits in our genetic code. We need a moratorium on people getting rich off of editing our genes.
Mumia seeks to show top state judge doubled as prosecutor and jurist reviewing his...
Philly cops get priority courtroom seats.
An uncharitable view of charity
The need for charity only exists because we’re tolerating intentional injustices and widespread inequality created by power elites.
There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like him in the...
It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.
Net neutrality
The biggest loser would be the internet itself, which would be made to surrender its determinedly democratic ethic to the plutocratic rule of corporate profiteers.
‘Corporate media are not observers of the electoral process; they are participants’
And that is a complete misunderstanding of the actual sociology of America.
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.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.
NRA President-elect Oliver North smears Parkland survivors as criminals
“What they did very successfully with a frontal assault, and now intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking, is they confused the American people.”