Tag: monument
The banality of evocation
Perhaps in 2020, the best monuments to the fight for women’s rights — for all our rights — may look nothing like what most of us would imagine.
Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons
Even though George Pullman was a feudalistic 19th-century profiteer, he considered himself a beneficent employer as he suppressed the wages of his factory workers. In current times, is our tax money going to finance a monument for his greed?
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Free speech under siege as Trump FCC forces cancellation of Kimmel
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threats from Trump’s FCC, raising alarms about corporate capitulation, censorship, and the systematic erosion of First Amendment protections.
House bill would let Marco Rubio strip passports over political speech
Provision would let the Secretary of State deny or revoke passports over alleged “material support” as critics warn of thought policing and unchecked authority.
Trade war and immigration crackdown push US farmers to the brink
Farmers describe collapsing export markets, labor shortages, and a missing safety net as tariffs and immigration policies reshape U.S. agriculture.
America the irrelevant
In war and peace, Trump is pushing the United States to the margins.
A new ally against excessive CEO Pay: Pope Leo
The Catholic leader’s criticism comes as members of Congress call for tax hikes on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps.