Tag: NFL
Indians become Guardians
Racism is a tag that has hung around America for far too long. Let’s end it now.
With the Super Bowl around the corner, NFL money blitzes Washington
A massive, culturally significant business can’t afford to stay on the sidelines of American politics and rather than waiting on a Hail Mary pass, the NFL takes control of their fate through lobbying and its PAC.
As the Eagles soar, Trump gets Sore
These brave athletes, representing the city where the U.S. Constitution was drafted, have an important civics lesson for President Trump.
Would Dr. King take a knee? 6 ways his radical spirit...
Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.
Taking a knee, standing for justice
Principled stands taken at great risk are often how movements are born.
They want Kaepernick to go Kaput!
Why is it that before every sporting event we have not only the national anthem, but honor guards and giant flags spread across the field of play?
Trump, NFL protests and the price of freedom
A reader responds to Donald Trump’s remarks disparaging NFL players for peacefully protesting against the treatment of black Americans.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.