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Tag: Jeffrey Epstein

Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of...

A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.

Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties

The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.

Epstein’s intelligence ties come into focus as Congress moves toward releasing...

A growing body of evidence details Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive work with Israeli intelligence while lawmakers push to force public access to government records that have remained hidden for years.
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Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to...

Drop Site revealed that Epstein had played a role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia and setting up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war.

Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the largest US bank enabled the...

The Times reports JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, including payments to some of the women who were sexually trafficked.

Trump’s Epstein problem proves ‘Pedocon Theory’ is real and needs to...

“Pedocon Theory” is real and it’s time Democrats not only acknowledge that, but start using it to win elections.

Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from...

On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.

Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows

Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.

The false hope of Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest

If history is any guide, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime partner is unlikely to pay the price for their crimes.

Harvard and Jeffrey Epstein

“Once Epstein was convicted, Harvard should have cut him off from further communication with the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences]. He didn't deserve more.”

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Howard Zinn speaking in 2009. Photo: Jim from Stevens Point, WI, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn

We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .

Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction

Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Judge Amit Mehta issued the order. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.