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| Sep 1, 2026 | Katrina’s 21st Anniversary in Lower Ninth Ward: Army Corps Expands Canal That Flooded It | By Earl Bensen
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| Aug 31, 2026 | White Supremacists Spin DOJ’s SPLC Indictment To Legitimize Extremism & Expand Recruitment | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and... |
| Aug 24, 2026 | NH Dems get a Consolation Prize in Pete Buttigieg | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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| Aug 19, 2026 | States With License Plate Reader Laws Still Fail Privacy Tests, NYU Finds | By Scott McCain
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| Jul 1, 2026 | The Supreme Court Upholds The Constitution. Barely. | Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is still a win, but for a number of reasons, the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara, regarding the issue of birthright citizenship is terrif... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Progressive Brad Lander’s surging bid for Congress splinters Democrats’ labor union alliance | To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo
New York Rep. Dan Goldman is the kind of establishment politician who typically cruises through a Democratic primary election.
Yet Goldman is fighting for his political li... |
| May 11, 2026 | CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Trump and Xi face a test over AI control | Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 11:00 SIN/HK | 0400 - 05:00 CET
In the U.S.-China tech race, Beijing has underscored AI control from the start; the U.S. seems only now to be taking it seriously.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi... |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late) | A federal judge has ruled that President Trump’s executive order last year defunding PBS and NPR violated the First Amendment, and has issued a permanent injunction insisting that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. But the ruling ... |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Pete Hegseth’s holy war (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As Donald Trump’s war with Iran grows more volatile by the day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bloodthirst and proselytizing risks spinning the conflagration further out of control.
In a war with... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | How billionaires worsen affordability crisis (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Chuck Collins
Americans of all political stripes are concerned about affordability. Some politicians would like to change the subject.
Billionaires and their allies in politics have tried everyt... |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Attorney General Bonta Denounces Harassment of Somali Childcare Providers, Reminds Californians of Their Rights | OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today shared hate crime guidance and resources in response to reports of childcare providers in California facing targeted harassment, surveillance, and stalking by internet vigilantes allegin... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Trump Crypto Company Allegedly Took Secret $500M Investment From UAE ‘Spy Sheikh’ | President Trump. Image: Creative Commons
A “Spy Sheikh,” a president, and lots of money. This isn’t the plot for the next James Bond movie, but some intriguing fintech news.
A powerful Abu Dhabi royal with deep intelligence ties quietly fun... |
| Jan 30, 2026 | DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants | Last week, a federal magistrate judge told the DOJ it could not arrest journalist Don Lemon. The DOJ appealed and lost that appeal too. The legal system said no.
So the DOJ arrested him anyway.
On January 18th, protesters interrupted servic... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | The TikTok Story and The Lessons for Builders | In September 2016, a small team at ByteDance launched a short-video app in China. Within a year, it had 100 million users and over a billion daily video views. By 2024, its international version, TikTok, had become one of the most downloade... |
| Dec 5, 2025 | John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting | Not that long ago, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from UPenn media professor Victor Pickard, whose work on the (many) problems with modern consol... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Эпоха групповых чатов. Негласные правила, динамика, модерация | Домовой чат в начале 2000-х
Когда вы последний раз заходили в профиль VK или «Одноклассников»? Кажется, здравомыслящие люди давно удалили эти профили, чтобы избежать слежки, потока поздравлений с каждым праздником и пр. Да и опасно в наше в... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Jennifer Givhan’s ‘Salt Bones’ addresses the silence around missing women | Jennifer Givhan, a Mexican American and Indigenous poet and novelist, grew up in Southern California. She holds a Master’s degree from California State University, Fullerton, and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College, and she’s... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us | The U.S. right wing has won a generational war against education and informed consensus with the closure of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting (CPB), which states it will being shuttering its doors after being unable to survive recent ... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Republicans Take A Hatchet To What’s Left Of U.S. Public Broadcasting, PBS Emergency Alerts | Authoritarian assholes really don’t like public broadcasting. They don’t like it because, in its ideal form, it untethers journalism from the often perverse financial incentives inherent in our consolidated, billionaire-owned, ad-engagement... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Editorial: Democrats are failing to meet the moment | Still largely missing in action is the Democratic Party.
In fact, while millions of average citizens spent the day fighting for democracy at the “No Kings” protests, many Democratic leaders — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, ... |
| Jun 17, 2025 | How The Republican Party Became A Party That Believes The Constitution Only Applies To Its Enemies | Let’s talk about constitutional hypocrisy so brazen, so comprehensive, so morally bankrupt that it would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to the republic.
I’ve learned something about modern Republicans that crystallizes everything w... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors | I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which were focused o... |
| May 19, 2025 | Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go? | Since the start of the Trump administration, many of our biggest concerns about how MAGA would attack free speech have not only proven true, but have turned out to be understated. Nearly all parts of the administration are seeking to silenc... |
| May 8, 2025 | Bill Gates says his net worth will ‘drop 99% over next 20 years’ | Summary:
⚈ Bill Gates pledges to give away 99% of wealth, shutting Foundation by 2045
⚈ Goals include ending preventable deaths, curing diseases, and reducing poverty
⚈ Critics question billionaire philanthropy’s motives and Gates’ past bus... |
| May 4, 2025 | Социализм vs Капитализм — когда мифы важнее фактов | Автор статьи "Почему социализм неэффективен", похоже, перечитал учебник для менеджеров Starbucks и решил, что этого достаточно, чтобы судить о мировой экономике.
Тема, конечно, не целевая для хабра (как и оригинальный текст), но к... |
| Apr 18, 2025 | White House Falsely Calls NPR, PBS A “Grift,” Moves To Cut Already Modest Funding In Latest Attack On Journalism And Informed Consensus | Authoritarians don’t much like journalism, education, or informed consensus for what should be obvious reasons. But the far right has long had a particular animosity for publicly-funded broadcasting. In part, because when done right, public... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | The IRS and Immigration: A Troubling Alliance | In a chilling twist of fate, the IRS has become a pawn in a larger game of immigration enforcement. The recent resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause is a stark reminder of the turmoil within the agency. She stepped down rath... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Another IRS Commissioner Steps Down After Being Forced To Share Immigrant Tax Records With The DHS | Away goes more talent. And away goes another obstacle standing in the way of Kristi Noem’s DHS and Donald Trump’s plans to rid this country of as many immigrants as inhumanely possible.
One acting commissioner — one with 38 years experience... |
| Mar 9, 2025 | The dark future of American child care | “Providers have been deemed as a ‘babysitter’ for far too long,” Ava Patrick’s parents wrote in testimony in support of the bill. “We consider the daycare industry a professional industry and it is time that we treated it as such.”
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| Mar 8, 2025 | The New Wave of Philanthropy and Lifestyle Branding: A Tale of Two Titans | In the landscape of modern influence, two figures stand out: Michael Bloomberg and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Each, in their own realm, is reshaping perceptions of wealth and lifestyle. Bloomberg, a billionaire philanthropist, embodies the ... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | America’s top donor Michael Bloomberg gifted $3.7 billion last year: I’ve ‘never understood’ waiting to die to give away wealth | If you’re fortunate enough to have more money than you require, don’t wait until you die to give it to those in need.
That’s the philosophy of 83-year-old billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who gave away a total of $3.7 billion to nonprofits in... |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Editorials | Editorial: No room for timidity in fight against Trump’s imperial presidency | Rep. Jared Golden, D.-Maine, rightly said Trump’s hatchet man, Elon Musk, is unelected, unvetted and unaccountable. “If I had a staffer like that, I’d probably fire him,” Golden said.
Democrats pulled an all-nighter to protest the confirmat... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Is Nvidia headed below $100 amid new tariffs? | On Monday, January 27, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock came under severe pressure as the release of the novel Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) DeepSeek threatened to change the ongoing technology boom radically.
On Monday, February 3, NVDA ... |
| Dec 13, 2024 | The Battle for Democracy: Navigating the Storm of Authoritarianism and AI in 2024 | In 2024, democracy faced a dual threat. On one side, the specter of authoritarianism loomed large, fueled by the actions of political figures who sought to undermine established norms. On the other, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) ... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | The Apocalypse That Wasn’t: AI Was Everywhere In 2024’s Elections, But Deepfakes And Misinformation Were Only Part Of The Picture | It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepf... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | The Trump Tangle: Legal Battles and Abortion Politics in a New Era | Donald Trump is back in the political arena, but the shadows of his past loom large. Legal troubles and shifting stances on key issues are shaping his new administration. The hush money case, a significant legal hurdle, hangs over him like ... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | National Politics | Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next | Abortion law experts said Trump’s decision to include fewer candidates with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement could indicate that abortion will not be a priority for Trump’s administration.
“It almost seems to suggest that President T... |
| Sep 29, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Alex Hinton: Why do people still back Trump, after everything? 5 things to understand about MAGA supporters’ thinking.
By Alex Hinton | By Alex Hinton
For many people, especially those leaning left, Donald Trump’s disqualifications to be president seem obvious, prompting some to question: How could anyone still vote for Trump?
Some of the evidence Trump’s critics cite inclu... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Judge O’Connor Says It’s Crazy To Think Tesla Is Connected To ExTwitter; Forces Media Matters To Pay Elon’s Fees | Apparently, Judge Reed O’Connor doesn’t think that owning a massive amount of Tesla stock constitutes a conflict of interest when it comes to judging Elon Musk’s legal battles.
Last week, we were briefly surprised when infamously partisan J... |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Kate Andrias: Amazon, SpaceX and others are arguing labor agency is unconstitutional
By Kate Andrias | By Kate Andrias
Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceeding... |
| Aug 17, 2024 | The Housing Market's Tightrope: Balancing Affordability and Demand | The U.S. housing market is a tightrope walk. On one side, affordability issues loom large. On the other, demand remains tepid. As mortgage rates fluctuate and policies shift, the landscape is in constant flux. The interplay of these factors... |
| Aug 16, 2024 |
Housing production and land regulation expert explores potential affordability solutions | In this week’s episode of the Top Of Mind podcast, Altos Research President Mike Simonsen explores the housing affordability and supply crisis facing the U.S. and its major cities.
Salim Furth joins Simonsen to share his expert opinions on ... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Surprise: Judge Recuses Himself From Elon Musk’s GARM SLAPP Suit | Elon Musk’s legal team probably thought they had the perfect strategy: file a SLAPP suit in a court with a judge known for partisan rulings, including rulings benefiting Elon himself in the past. But they didn’t count on one thing – the jud... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | South Africa's Drug Crisis: A Growing Threat**
** | ** In the heart of South Africa, a hidden menace lurks. Recently, three Mexicans and two South Africans were arrested in a police raid on a crystal meth lab. This operation, tucked away on a remote farm north of Johannesburg, was not just a... |
| Jul 21, 2024 | Opinion: Richard Forno: Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
By Richard Forno | By Richard Forno
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, added more fuel to an already fiery election season. In this case, political violence was carried out against the party that is most often found espousing it. Th... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Why I can’t bring myself to buy from Amazon | Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
I have a confession to make: I’ve never bought anything from Amazon.
Well, that’s not technically true. When I was 14, my father ordered me a CD (remember those?) from Amazon (Californication by Red... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Media Matters Makes The Case That Judge Should Recuse Over Tesla Stock Ownership | Does Elon Musk control all of his companies as if they’re a single entity where he can shift resources between them with no restrictions? Certainly, there has been a lot of reporting to that effect over the years, and now that might have so... |
| May 16, 2024 | “Kill The Story,” ExxonMobil Demands | “Kill the story.”
That was the order Alan Jeffers, a media relations manager at ExxonMobil, gave Reuters’ Houston bureau chief.
It was October 2016. The “Exxon Knew” scandal had erupted a year prior, when Inside Climate News, the Los Angele... |
| Apr 13, 2024 | 'Our community has never had this much power': How Dearborn became the epicenter of Biden's 2024 headaches over Israel | Politics 'Our community has never had this much power': How Dearborn became the epicenter of Biden's 2024 headaches over Israel
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| Mar 19, 2024 | Holocaust historian sees parallels in today's anti-LGBTQ+ laws | In 1920s Germany, a burgeoning Nazi Party looking to unite the political right targeted a group that party leaders knew was a common enemy: queer people.
They ramped up a propaganda campaign, banning publications by and about LGBTQ+ people ... |
| Mar 10, 2024 | UN warns of 'massive loss of life' and 'atrocity crimes' if Israel moves in on Rafah | Military & Defense UN warns of 'massive loss of life' and 'atrocity crimes' if Israel moves in on Rafah
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| Mar 8, 2024 | For CPAC Attendees, ‘America Is Under Attack’ | In recent years, the far right has used the event to integrate themselves into the greater political establishment and influence a coherent identity for their movement. The conference focuses on elections as one of the key strategies for ad... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Moving from crisis response to crisis prevention in U.S. mental health systems | Despite widespread promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, in 2023, police killed at least 1,246 people — the most in more than a decade. This police violence is intertwined with a parallel public policy disaster: Ameri... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Web monitors say Gaza week-long internet outage is longest yet | Internet monitoring firms say a near-total internet blackout in Gaza is reaching its seventh day, the longest outage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict so far.
Doug Madory, the director of internet analysis at Kentik, told TechCrunch in a... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Republicans Are Mad The FCC Rejected Elon Musk’s Attempt To Get A Billion Dollars In Subsidies To Deliver Pricey Satellite Broadband To Some Traffic Medians | You might recall that Elon Musk claims to hate taxpayer subsidies. They should all be “deleted.” Except for the subsidies given to his companies (often for doing nothing), of course. |
| Dec 8, 2023 | 'I feel conned into keeping this baby' | Redeem now
Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.
It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.
They were staying at Tara's mother-in-law's home in Texas, sleeping with their kids ... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | A New Twist on Climate Inequality | Inequality has always been at the heart of the climate crisis. Traditionally, inequality between countries has loomed largest: Rich countries have been responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, but poor countries have suffered the ... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Farrah Hassen: Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch. | By Farrah Hassen
Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, “My dream is for us to stay alive and to live in peace. We have a right to stay alive.”
She’s one of the 2.2 mi... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Dueling Lawsuits Open Up Questions About Leading Online Learning Company | Who knows what else is in the box.getty |
| Oct 10, 2023 | The history behind Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel | A missile explodes in Gaza City during an Israeli air strike on October 8, 2023. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel this weekend.
Israel has since reta... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | The disaster vultures | Redeem now
When disaster strikes, there are often two tragedies. The first, and most important, is the loss of life: Over 100 people died when wildfires burned across Hawaii in early August. Homes, cherished belongings, and local history we... |
| Aug 21, 2023 | West Virginia Says It’s Too Poor To Support Its Only Major University | LONDON - DECEMBER 1: A student studies in the main library at the University College London on ... [+] December 1, 2003 in London. British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces mounting revolt from MPs following legislation proposals announced by... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Latinas are carving out space in horror and other popular book genres | U.S. Latino and Latin American authors have carved out their own space in some of literature's most sought-out genres — fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, and horror — while including in their works critiques of colonialism, colorism, gov... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | 'Bidenomics' is being used to tout the country's economic progress — but Americans are still waiting for key Democratic priorities like a higher minimum wage and paid leave | President Joe Biden in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 1, 2023. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
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| May 27, 2023 | Вечно в строю | Мало кому из крупных политиков и государственных деятелей удавалось дожить до 100-летнего юбилея. За целый век можно сделать многое. Генри Киссинджер успел побывать государственным секретарем и помощником президента США по национальной безо... |
| May 1, 2023 | When Complaining About a Public Official Can Land You in Jail | This piece was published in partnership with The Nation.
What if you lived in a country where you could be jailed for criticizing a public official? What if that country were the United States?
In May 2018, Bob Frese, a resident of Exeter, N... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | The Problem With Many Businesses Is Badly Done Capitalism | LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 31: A protestor dressed as a Zombie carries a placard in front of St ... [+] Paul's Cathedral on October 31, 2011 in London, England. The Dean of St Pauls Cathedral The Very Reverend Graeme Knowles has resigned ove... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | The Physical Toll Systemic Injustice Takes On the Body | The pathologists who performed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s autopsy noted he had the heart of a 60 year old, although he was 39 when he died. His damaged heart was duly noted in the official record as a curiosity, but there was no question ... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | HER SPORTS ACADEMY ANNOUNCES THEIR SOFT LAUNCH AND SPORTING EVENT AT CALIFORNIA STATE LONG BEACH JUNE 23-25th 2023 | We are Womens Sports!
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The First Ever Women ONLY Sports Academy to Forecast a Collegiate Style Campus accompanied by Erecting an arm of Women’s Professional Sports Leagues .
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| Mar 25, 2023 | Sunlight in your bedroom could become a luxury as cities debate allowing landlords to rent windowless rooms in former office buildings to alleviate the housing crisis | A woman cleans the windows of her apartment in a public housing complex on April 12, 2022 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, New York. Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Images
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| Mar 23, 2023 | Trump's plan to build 10 new American cites is a right-wing dream of 'trad havens for beautiful families,' the internet's favorite architecture critic says | As president, Donald Trump signed an executive order making classical architecture the preferred style for federal buildings and called modernist architecture "ugly and inconsistent." Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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| Mar 8, 2023 | How universities became giant piggy banks for hedge-fund billionaires | Redeem now
The most cutting jokes are the ones with a bit of truth behind them. While the increasingly popular quip that "colleges are just real-estate hedge funds with classes attached" may inspire eye rolls, recent moves are mak... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Universities are turning into real-estate hedge funds — and students are paying the price | The most cutting jokes are the ones with a bit of truth behind them. While the increasingly popular quip that "colleges are just real-estate hedge funds with classes attached" may inspire eye rolls, recent moves are making the jok... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | The Great Boomer Bottleneck | Redeem now
Parents: Is there anything we can't blame on them? They bear the responsibility for our neuroses, the less flattering aspects of our appearance, and, now, the worst inflationary crisis since the 1970s.
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| Feb 24, 2023 | Department of Energy Announces $2.5 Billion to Cut Pollution and Deliver Economic Benefits to Communities Across the Nation | Listen to this story:
Scaling carbon capture technologies to boost job creation, create healthier communities and strengthen American energy and economic security
Programs funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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| Feb 24, 2023 | Fixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat | A classic warning in public health goes like this: “A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other health enhancing activities may actually be reducing the health of its population.”
No nat... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | New Report Shows How 2016 ‘DNC Hacked Itself’ Story Was Fabricated Garbage And The Nation Ran With It Anyway | Back in 2015, you might recall how the Russian Government was caught hacking into the DNC. It wasn’t particularly subtle; a Russian intelligence officer pretending to be a Romanian hacker made the dumb mistake of forgetting to turn on his V... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Mindstrong’s demise and the future of mental health care | One of the shinier entrants to have emerged in the world of mental health startups abruptly announced last week it would wind down, right in the middle of an ongoing crisis in mental health care. Mindstrong, which had raised a total of $160... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | The incredible life of Kobe Bryant, the 41-year-old basketball legend who died in a helicopter crash three years ago | Kobe Bryant in November 2019. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
NBA legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash three years ago, on January 26, 2020, in Calabasas, California. Eight other people died in the crash, including his 13-year-old dau... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Resources for Black History Month | February marks Black History Month and the Maine Department of Education is sharing a collection of resources to help educators integrate Black history into the curriculum, not only this month but on a regular basis.
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| Jan 21, 2023 | Professor Nicolai Petro on ‘The Tragedy of Ukraine’ | Members of the local Ukrainian diaspora, war refugees, peace activists, volunteers, and local supporters participate in the “Support Ukraine” daily protest in Krakow, Poland, on June 7, 2022. (Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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| Jan 13, 2023 | 14 influential essays from Black writers on America's problems with race | Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an opportunity for allies to educate themselves on the history of race in America. Santi Visalli/Getty images
Business leaders are calling for people to reflect on civil rights this Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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| Jan 5, 2023 | Damar Hamlin Injury Shows The NFL Has Come A Long Way In On-Field Medical Treatment | Buffalo Bills players congregate on the field by the ambulance after Buffalo Bills safety Damar ... [+] Hamlin (3) collapses during the NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals on January 2, 2023, at Paycor Sta... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | As Grad Student Unionizing Effort Grows, Universities Raise Stipends, Benefits | The University of Pennsylvania has recently announced it will make its largest ever increase in ... [+] stipends for its Ph.D. students.getty |
| Nov 19, 2022 | Великолепная семерка пацифистов | Полвека назад произошло знаковое событие в истории США. 21 ноября 1972 года апелляционный суд отменил приговоры борцам против войны во Вьетнаме, осужденным за антиправительственный заговор,— так называемой чикагской семерке. «Заговором» счи... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | The Forgotten War: Why Two Sisters Created An Organization To Push For Change | Maebel Gebremedhin (left) and Hawzien Gebremedhin (right).Hawzien and Maebel Gebremedhin |
| Oct 5, 2022 | On This Day in South Africa: What happened on 05 October? | In 1966, The South African Military History Society was established following the appeal of Commander-General H.B. Klopper for all South Africans to be interested in the military history of South Africa. Image: Wikimedia Commons
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| Sep 8, 2022 | The TSA Is Hot Garbage. And We Will Never Be Rid Of It. | The terrorists won. And it wasn’t a small victory. It was one that managed to make the American way of life significantly worse for anyone attempting to fly. Flying is how we get around in this sprawl of a nation that encompasses 50 states ... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Will the pro-abortion rights billionaires please stand up? | During the 2020 election, left-leaning billionaires — particularly tech billionaires — who previously hadn’t been big political spenders emerged as a powerful political force. Several of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest, from Facebook co-founder... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How. | As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. We... |
| May 23, 2022 | Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out | Earlier this month, we highlighted PayPal’s (PYPL) decision to ban two independent media organizations, Mint Press and Consortium, from using the payments platform. The sites are staffed by and affiliated with highly reputable journalists, ... |
| May 17, 2022 | Impending Threat of Abortion Criminalization Brings New Urgency to the Fight for Digital Privacy | As the shockwaves from the bombshell publication of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade continue to reverberate, questions and fears about our digital privacy and what comes next abound. To be clear: Right now, abor... |
| May 16, 2022 | The Ukraine Genocide Debate Reveals the Limits of International Law | On April 12, President Biden joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing genocide in Ukraine. An increasing number of academics have engaged in a heated debate about the applicab... |
| May 10, 2022 | How Windfall Profits Have Supercharged Food Inflation | Food inflation is being juiced by windfall profits. getty |
| May 6, 2022 | LA strippers look to form first exotic dancers union in decades | More On: strippers
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| May 1, 2022 | How Russia’s War in Ukraine Affects Its Meddling in Africa | Editor’s Note: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to greater focus on Moscow's activities around the world. Working through private military companies, Russia has repeatedly intervened in Africa's civil wars, becoming a major power bro... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Telecom Lobby Targets Senators Manchin, Kelly, And Cortez Masto In Bid To Scuttle Sohn FCC Nomination | We just got done noting how the telecom industry has been pushing misleading editorials in Arizona to derail the nomination of popular and well-qualified telecom and telecom reformer Gigi Sohn to the FCC. The editorials are full of false cl... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Putin Learns A Lesson Washington Knows All Too Well: Military Power Can Kill People, But It Can’t Change Them | President Biden has taken to describing Russian military tactics in Ukraine as genocidal. |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Big Telecom Astroturfers Smear FCC Nom Gigi Sohn In Arizona | For years, we’ve noted how one of the greasier lobbying tactics in telecom is the co-opting of civil rights groups to provide the illusion of broad support for what’s often awful policy. |
