Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 21
American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, ICE is arresting the sponsors of undocumented children, and more.
“Brutal and sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on family separation & the U.S. roots of today’s...
More than 400 parents have been deported back to their home countries while their children remain in U.S. custody in facilities scattered across the United States.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 20
Lawsuit filed against officers for false arrest, mosquitoes could spread microplastics, Feds pledge more funds to target violence against Native American women, and more.
Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel’s new transportation scheme is a privatization bonanza
The development is yet another example of Emanuel’s plan to transform Chicago into a city for the wealthy few.
Study: Major media outlets’ Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times...
News outlets are still failing to grapple with a major problem that media critics highlighted during the Trump transition.
What I learned about nonviolence from Tony Soprano
Through the eyes of an organizer, “The Sopranos” offers many lessons in navigating power and how to wield it.
Ceasar: Grief and challenge
The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.
Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right to vote
At least 6 million U.S. citizens cannot vote in the United States because they have been convicted of a felony.
Keeping up the fight against the Muslim ban
A year after the Supreme Court ruling upholding it, advocates have lined up legislation and presidential candidates behind undoing one of Trump’s signature abuses.
Patriotism has little stature when the need for international collaboration has never been so...
Rather than encouraging the collective, global scientific approach the pandemic desperately needs, Trump deliberately isolates the United States from such a required international response.