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Republican unveils worst school idea ever: Make poor kids clean floors
By Jim Newell Rep. Jack Kingston seems to be the least crazy of the various House Republicans running to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Georgia. Why? Ha, I don’t really know; he got into some sort of fight with … Continue reading
With Bratton, de Blasio’s Already Breaking Campaign Promises
By Charles D. Ellison With all the chatter and excitement surrounding New York City’s black first lady, Chirlane McCray, you’d think it was verboten to talk about anything else when it comes to Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio. To hear the pundit … Continue reading
The Final Countdown For Extended Unemployment Benefits
By Arthur Delaney For one happy week in January, Casey O’Connell and her husband, Gerry Ferguson, both had jobs. Ferguson, an Iraq war vet, had been out of work 15 months when he landed employment with Pennsylvania’s workforce development system. … Continue reading
White House announces new executive actions on guns
By Carrie Dann The White House on Thursday announced two executive actions that it says will close loopholes that allow the most dangerous types of firearms from falling into the wrong hands. The new policies come as legislative action on … Continue reading
Immiseration: Deliberative Impoverishment and Racial Profiling
By Dr. Merelyn Bates-Mims ***Update: Please take the survey “Is good citizenship an effective guard against being profiled?”. It only takes a minute and the information is confidential. Here’s the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VG8YRTV ~ SB. Thanks!!*** Immiseration? Don’t … Continue reading
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What I learned from getting shot
By Brian Beutler I haven’t said or written much publicly about the shooting that nearly killed me in 2008. But a recent confluence of events — Trayvon Martin’s death, the Zimmerman trial and the public pronouncements of mostly privileged, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence, guns, politics, race, racial profiling, stop & frisk
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We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class
By Bill Moyers I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document. By then, he had served on … Continue reading →