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Media must step it up on Medicare-for-All

July 4, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Health care, Obama, Republicans, Social Sec/Medicare One comment

There are two key reasons why mainstream media must be talking about Medicare-for-All. First, it is sound policy, something that all Americans should hope

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Highlights of NY Times’ annotated Constitution

July 4, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Constitution, Federalism, Government, Media Leave a comment

On July 2, 2017, the New York Times published a special section: an annotated version of the United States Constitution. The special section, says

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Jason Chaffetz

Do the unthinkable: double, triple Congressional Salaries

July 3, 2017 Arthur Lieber Congress, Corruption, Democracy, Ethics, Good government, Health care, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Of all people, conservative retired Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) tossed out the idea that Members of Congress should be given a monthly housing stipend

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Do African countries want your second-hand clothes? Yes and No

June 29, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, International One comment

In 2016, the six-nation East African Community—whose members are Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and South Sudan—agreed to a ban on imported second-hand clothes

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disappearing data

Disappearing data: A Trump administration vanishing act

June 27, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government Leave a comment

Where has all the data gone? Since the Trump wrecking crew took over, government data has been disappearing at an alarming rate. At first,

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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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London van incident

The battle within between dispassion and empathy

June 21, 2017 Hafsa Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Terrorism, Violence Leave a comment

I had been planning on writing yet another article decrying the afflictive double standard and dog whistle politics of the term “terrorism.” Saturday, thousands

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horse-trading

Healthcare horse-trading: Who’s getting what for a Trumpcare vote?

June 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Congress, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

How much horse-trading is going on in the secret negotiations to kill Obamacare? The U.S. Senate is racing toward an artificial deadline for a

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Trump flunks US Army’s own leadership checklist

June 18, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Legal issues/Law, Military Leave a comment

How unfit for the presidency is Donald Trump? The term “unfit” has been bandied about quite a lot since January 2017, when Trump was

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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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