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While the United States is not merely the richest country in the world, but the richest in human history, it is also one of the most unequal of the world’s wealthy countries. That inequality is increasingly reflected in the question of who bears the...
by javiinitiate
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 04:06 PM PDT
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President Joe Biden has a long-term vision for America’s economy—one that’s largely been obscured by the short-term disruptions of our post-pandemic reality. Of course, while inflation has ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 09:20 AM PDT
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Get to work, spread the word, and support Angela Alsobrooks in the Democratic primary for Maryland’s open seat in the U.S. Senate.� The primary is May 14, 2024. Commentary by Black Kos Editor, ...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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I was in DC giving this speech �at the National Press Foundation awards dinner.� Help keep this work sustainable by joining the � Sorensen Subscription Service! � Also on � Patreon .
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Your friendly neighborhood PSA: Be on the lookout for election disinformation Commentary by Chitown Kev Today is�March 5, 2024, Super Tuesday, the day where elections will be held in 15 states�in ...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 02:01 PM PST
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“Black History is American History” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez As we approach the end of the shortest month of the year, and corporations and organizations say goodbye ...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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Robert Reich has had a long and honored career of government service, activism, and teaching. Of late he’s been addressing economic matters and the way the economy does not work for too many people. Reich also likes to draw, and if anyone has been...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 01:45 PM PST
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Voices and Soul by Justice Putnam, Black Kos Poetry Editor I purchased and built my first crystal radio with an ear-set with funds gifted to me on my birthday in March of 1963. I was eight years old. It took a couple of weeks before the components...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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President Joe Biden has been having some fun with the economists whose predictions about the economy were so wrong. He jabbed back: “Experts, from the time I got elected, were insisting that a recession was just around the corner. Every month, there...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s a truth (or do I mean a truism?): you’re only young once. I say that, of course, as I head for my 80th year on this planet....
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 07:53 AM PST
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Who pays their fair share of taxes in America? That’s a debatable point, as “fair” is not an easily definable term. But it is easy to see who pays the largest share of their family earnings, and it may not be who you’d think! This map (poached from the...
by Rusticana
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 04:52 PM PST
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While many trace the beginning of the modern rightwing fascist-friendly MAGA-type movement to the 1954 Brown v Board decision and the way it put the John Birch Society on steroids, another interesting origin story for today’s GOP base is grounded in...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 08:13 AM PST
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Across England, children are eating erasers or hiding in the playground because they can't afford lunch. The latest statistics show 3.9 million children – eight in every class of 30 – are growing up in poverty. Jade Hunter, a headteacher at West...
by Adventurist
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
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An old Nevada rancher refuted me, “Fact checkers? Who believes them?” Pulitzer Prize credibility danced on the tip of my tongue. But why bother? We used to have a generally accepted consensus on what makes a fact. Now algorithms serve up information...
by speedboat
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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NOTE: Earth Matters will not appear on December 24 and December 31. It will return January 7, 2024. December 28 marks the 50th birthday of the signing of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was a solidly bipartisan act of Congress signed by a...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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Beyond Trump, it’a also the Republican party leadership and Republican voters. Why are they lining up behind this lawless thug? There are two main factors: racism and massive wealth inequality. Aristotle explained a long time ago that in a city...
by Phillysophy
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 05:46 AM PST
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Trump will implode, don’t let the rats get away Trump has captured all the ire and all the air in our politics since 2015. I admit I thought his impact would be no more than that of the ...
by Grey Panther
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 05:16 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s strange to try to come to grips with this increasing wreck of a planet. When you’re my age, you have to wonder about the...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 07:46 AM PDT
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he group of the world's � 20 leading economies � is � welcoming the African Union � as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 01:25 PM PDT
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An excellent article in the recent issue of Rethinking Schools introduces a very different way of understanding school debt. In “School Debt: The Great Unequalizer,” Eleni Schirmer explains that an even bigger problem than individual student debt may...
by Alan Singer
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 03:34 AM PDT
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- Russian forces conducted missile strikes against Ukrainian railway and logistics infrastructure on April 25. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces struck a logistics and railway connection point in Smila, Cherkasy Oblast likely with...19 comments 117 Recs
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- "He Wrote All of it Down" - Prosecution has Weisselberg's Handwritten Notes, Spelling Out the SchemeMichael Cohen’s testimony in the election interference trial of Donald Trump shall be corroborated by a simple bank statement, on which CFO Allan Weisselberg broke down the reimbursement scheme. The prosecution has that bank statement, as they told the...191 comments 595 Recs
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