27 U.S. Governors Refuse to Accept Refugees Fleeing Violence in Syria
In the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris, governors of at least 27 U.S. states have said they will not accept Syrian refugees. Hear the reaction from Roula Allouch, national board chair of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Routing the two-tier system: Part II – raising the lower tier
If the bottom tier can have security and happiness, and if our society eliminates corruption, that will make our society a good one worth having.
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’
What explains corporate media’s credulous reliance on uninformative economic measures, and contradictory references to a “strong economy,” alongside reports on a struggling working class?
Here we go: Another IRS problem (and a Bank of America problem)
“I don’t know if you have IRS problems; I do.”
Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest
It is not fair to expect oppressed people to answer violence with nonviolence, but it’s what actually works far more often.
Both-sidesing democracy to death
Six months later, Trump has solidified his grip on the right, and elite journalists have largely returned to their perfunctory both-sides reporting.
Bill McKibben: Green New Deal is a chance to ‘remake not just a broken...
"...if we don’t get action really soon, if we let it stretch out, those are the decades that will finish the work of breaking the planet. It’s why the urgency of something like the Green New Deal is so crucial."
Fox & Friends attacks public schools for teaching climate change and LGBTQ issues
Pete Hegseth: Parents “don't understand that even our public schools today ... have an agenda”
With God on our side?
“It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.”
Government should pay for migrant families’ mental health services, lawsuit says
“These mental health services cannot be provided in the same slipshod manner as the government implemented its initial trauma inducing policy.”