‘You are not the crazy one:’ Stephen Colbert takes aim at Trump’s new attacks...
"I was worried, because what I’m seeing and reading is that the president is a racist, horny old burger goblin who literally steals children from poor people."
Nepo babies and the myth of the meritocracy
Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.
Paper or digital, political posters matter as much as ever
“Print is not dead!” Lincoln Cushing exclaims. And digital is not always the ideal alternative – with social media algorithms set up to silo people into comfortable bubbles, these posters might not travel to unlikely audiences.
Legal marijuana is a job creation machine
We can see this playing out in the states that have legalized marijuana. Early legalizers, Colorado and Washington, saw double-digit jobs growth last year.
Termites
Since less than 1% of Amerikans earn mega millions each year, it is time for the 99+& of us to say 'Enough is enough'. Only then can we slowly rid our republic of those termites.
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.
Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated...
We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess—from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.
Generation Z more progressive than millennial generation, new survey shows
"Gen Z looks a lot like millennials politically, which is terrible news for Republicans."
Facebook is not playing fair
The problem with Facebook is that it established so-called “Community Standards,” and it uses these “standards” to censor posts by its members and then block them for a few days or a month from further posting.
Billionaires made more money in 2017 than any other year in recorded history
Meanwhile, 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty and "5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty."