Tag: racial inequality
Don’t look away
The ongoing crisis of racially motivated police violence—and the government’s violent response to demonstrations against those actions—reminds us that change requires justice.
Nationwide rebellion against police violence demands justice for George Floyd
People are protesting the killing in Minneapolis and St Paul as well as across the country.
Rethinking reparations
Aaron Campbell was young, black, unarmed, and suffered from mental illness, exacerbated by his brother’s death that day from kidney failure. He was...
Why Progressives Must Stay United
A progressive movement is needed to overcome widening economic inequality and the legacy of racial inequality in America. We must take back our economy and democracy from the moneyed interests that now control both.
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AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms
Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”
From Guernica to Gaza
“Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.”
Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over vaccine policy
After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.
DRC to open bids for oil and gas drilling putting pristine forest and endangered...
Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) government opened another round of auctioning for 52 oil blocks, which threatens 64 percent of the country’s pristine forest.
When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal, GOP-demolishing backlash?
Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.