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Capitalism isn't working

Material Conditions First!

June 21, 2017 Adam Levin Activism, Capitalism, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Consider two anecdotes: The First: Recently I tried to get into the mind of a Trump supporter that had posted a status about the

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“Ferguson: Nixon Fails while Business Thrives”

June 11, 2017 Reece Ellis Uncategorized Leave a comment

Today, it looks like any other Midwestern town. There are fast food restaurants, auto shops, drug stores, a laundromat, and rows of cookie-cutter houses.

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Don't Shoot

Happy Birthday

June 1, 2017 Hafsa Children, Civil liberties, Crime/Violence, Guns, Justice, LGBT, Police, Public safety, Uncategorized, Violence One comment

In a few weeks, I turn 20. People keep telling me how young I am— how my life is just beginning. But today I

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Smoking gun

Arrests: What’s missing from Trumpgate

March 21, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Corruption, Justice, Trump, Uncategorized 2 comments

It unfolded so differently. The first that we heard about it was the announcement of the arrests, not rumors. Watergate began with the weird

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The night the media went South

March 1, 2017 Arthur Lieber Media, Republican Brain, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Last night, I think that I finally got it: why Donald Trump feels that way he does about mainstream media, particularly CNN. Fake news.

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An act of sanity by Trump: Skipping Correspondents’ Dinner

February 26, 2017 Arthur Lieber Nuclear weapons, Republican Brain, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

At first we couldn’t talk about it. The dictums of the American Psychological Association said that not only was it inappropriate for us as

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Lies, more lies and then Pinocchios for Trump

February 26, 2017 Bill Kesler Government, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Poor fact-checkers. The lies coming out of the White House just won’t stop. The Washington Post uses Pinocchios to score just how bad a

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Tribalism in baseball and politics: World Series edition

October 25, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Politics, Sports, Uncategorized One comment

The Chicago Cubs are in the 2016 World Series. Good for them. They’re a great team. So, why am I so bitter and resentful?

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Political quotes: “Millennials”

October 24, 2016 Christopher Burke Uncategorized One comment

Everything is political. Our long-running series of political quotes–like this one– proves that. We think. We’re always on the lookout for quotes–contemporary and historical–that

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Original intent vs. living document: Musing about the Constitution

October 22, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Uncategorized One comment

I’m not an expert on the U.S. Constitution. I’m not a lawyer constitutional or otherwise. But I am a U.S. citizen, I did take

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