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Mega-yachts for the mega-rich, and the Cayman connection
Spend a little time on the Ft. Lauderdale water taxi and you’ll soon get a feel for the world of […]
Voting rights watch: Florida’s bathroom blockade
In their incessant quest to find ever more creative and nasty ways to suppress the vote, Florida Republicans have come […]
U.S. corporations stashing $2 trillion in profits offshore
According to Huffington Post, corporations are keeping $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid paying taxes. One of the many ways corporations […]
“It only takes a girl” focuses on child marriage and the cycle of poverty
It all starts with the girls. That’s the message of a video, called “It Only Takes a Girl,” produced by […]
Rape insurance abortion rider goes into effect in Michigan
Starting in late March, Michigan women really started feeling the affects of the “War on Women.” The state’s new law […]
Free speech and free spending vs. fair elections: A Constitutional dilemma
So often we hear about our inherent rights to what is guaranteed in the Constitution. If it’s regarding free speech, […]
Florida stands its ground against media access to Stand Your Ground cases
Ah, Florida. You’ve got to love the originality of the place. First it comes up with the Stand Your Ground […]
Political poll: Too late at night, too early in the election cycle
A 202 area code on caller ID usually means that I’m not picking up. It’s going to be political—probably a […]
Will the protests at the University of Southern Maine spark a national student movement?
Like so many other institutions in this, our neoliberal land of opportunity, universities have become infested with rent extracting parasites. […]
Please don’t call them suffragettes
When the conversation gets around to women’s history, and the subject is women’s struggle to win the right to vote, […]
Washington DC’s NFL football team changes its name today
The NFL’s Washington, DC. team has announced that it is officially changing its name to something more politically correct and […]
“I’m a Republican…and Obamacare is the best health care I’ve ever had.”
In February, Mark D. Beardon, a retired psychologist living in Monroe, North Carolina wrote a letter to President Obama, letting […]
The progressive way to peace
Yoruba Richen has a unique worldview. As an African-American woman, she sees a distinct correlation between the civil rights movement […]
Dereliction of environmental duty
Three events in the last two days have helped me better understand why citizens are helpless against purposeful polluters and […]
