Tag: children
The NRA versus American children
Children and teens in the United States experience much higher rates of gun deaths and injuries than in any other industrialized country.
When will we start applying the precautionary principle to the chemicals...
Agencies consistently place a far higher value on corporate profits than they do on the children of the world.
Parenting the climate-change generation
I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
‘Shocking’ report reveals thousands of migrant children have been sexually abused...
"This is not normal! Why would any member of Congress or person of conscience support increasing funds and enabling this agency?"
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.
Give children the vote, strengthen democracy
Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
On World Children’s Day, human rights group calls on Trump administration...
"All children deserve to be safe and protected, to live with their parents and their families, and to have their voices heard."
Teenagers in space
Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.
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Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.
No king but madness reigns
Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.
Multi-million dollar agreement to import giant pandas from China collapses
Reports from advocacy groups like SF Zoo Watch and In Defense of Animals call on Mayor Daniel Lurie to halt new animal acquisitions and transform the 100-acre site from a traditional exhibition-based zoo into a 21st-century ecological park.