Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018
Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.
Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma & long recovery
The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.
‘Shoot’em with a Camera:’ New campaign backed by legendary conservationists to stop Wyoming’s grizzly...
The campaign, which stated on social media on July 8, was a creative action to stop the hunt and rather get activists in the field and "hunt" with a camera rather than with a gun.
Can the Brit’s Baby Trump blimp come play at Trump’s DC military parade?
In these grim times, we could use a good dose of British humor.
In the era of ‘fake news,’ Americans would like to change the media model
Does the population agree with this view?
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Sanders rips Trump on Helsinki remarks, Mueller seeks immunity for 5 mystery witnesses, net neutrality defenders declare a win, and more.
Bernie Sanders takes on corporate power and wealth inequality during town hall
"This is what a rigged economy looks like and it must end."
How rising inequality is stalling economies by crippling demand
A new agenda is needed. We have to recognize that economic growth inevitably involves economic transformation, based on innovation and technological change.
Comic: The upside of crowded living
What I went through to find a place to live in the fifth most expensive city for renting.
Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free speech, climate action
As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.