The cuts in Trump’s budget you haven’t heard about
While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.
Cleaning up Trump’s global mess
Democratic candidates offer a wide range of foreign policy views. These won’t decide the election, but they could have a huge post-Trump impact.
Trump initiates new tariffs on hundreds of products from China
Beijing has said before that its prepared to retaliate with even higher tariffs on American imports.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act does not solve the farm labor dilemma
America’s farmworkers deserve better.
High Court rules Shell not liable in UK for Nigeria oil spills
The ruling is at odds with a decision at the Hague in 2015.
From an old journalist, another letter to the tribe
Cover the election, not just the candidates.
Bringing Back Bill
“Hillary promises that her former-president husband will be put ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy.’”
Mueller can’t unrig the system, but movements can
Leading Democrats treated Russia as Trump’s worst crime, even sprinkling in some neo-Cold War rhetoric, while dismissing movements doing the real work of resistance.
Learning from mistakes: It’s time to lower interest rates
A statement of this intention by the Fed, along with a modest rate cut, would be a huge step in this direction.
Time to ‘break Facebook up,’ Sanders says after leaked docs show social media giant...
“As I have been saying the privacy frame is bullshit,” said another critic. “Facebook is all about criminal behavior to monopolize ad money.”