Tag: culture
US doubles down as empire declines
U.S. global dominance is coming to an end. The issue is how will it end?
Photo essay: Eight reasons students walked out over gun laws
“All of these students will be voting in the next four years. We will be in the driver’s seat.”
Everybody does better when everybody does better
Populism – neither right nor left, Republican or Democrat – it is not based on ideology, but on two gut-level fundamentals.
Talking sense about immigration
In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?
The racist origin of the Second Amendment and the rise of...
Throughout history gun control laws have been used against people of color.
People are showing they’ve had enough
People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”
America’s Shkreli problem
What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?
Bernie hosting town hall on income inequality with Michael Moore and...
The town hall will focus on poverty in America, the 40-year decline of the middle class, and the growing power and political influence of corporate interests.
High school students
So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.
Brainwashed nation
We are a brainwashed nation and the political energy of “resisters” is expended in outrage or, at best, fending off the latest assault on immigrants, the poor, civil liberties.
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Judge blocks Trump policy of fining immigrants up to $1.8 million after deportation orders
The Boston ruling halts penalties of $998 a day that DHS says it has assessed in more than 103,000 cases, after finding the forms lacked individual allegations
America’s Archvillain, And His Arch of Tr(i)ump(h)
Tom Engelhardt on the 250-foot triumphal arch Trump plans to build in Washington, D.C.
States take on 75 percent of SNAP administrative costs as federal share drops to...
Forty states have appropriated money for the shift, while New York and North Carolina passed the costs to counties and Arkansas and New Hampshire declined
Nearly 4,000 Brigham nurses set open-ended strike for Oct. 14, the largest in Massachusetts...
Mass General Brigham says it has contracted 1,300 temporary nurses, while the union says the system conditioned further talks on a multi-year pay freeze
No, Mr. Trump, Iran can’t “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego
US intelligence agencies have assessed for 25 years that Iran has no military nuclear weapons program, and Iran has no intercontinental ballistic missile, writes Juan Cole.