Tag: friendship
Eulogy for a Friend
Chris Hedges recently delivered this eulogy for his friend and former divinity school classmate, the Rev. Terry Burke, who spent 31 years as the pastor of the First Church Jamaica Plain in Boston.
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Garbage in, garbage CEO windfalls out
‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.
The crowning fiasco: even the king looked embarrassed
The discussion around the British monarchy, which is starting to ignite and will grow and deepen, needs to take in the wider issue of wealth and income inequality and the poisonous economic system that fuels it.
‘Enormous policy failure’: states throw hundreds of thousands—including many children—off Medicaid
"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."
Supreme Court ruling against EPA ‘undoes a half-century of progress’ in protecting waters of...
"It puts our Nation’s wetlands – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.