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Tufts Doesn’t Pay its Fair Share in Somerville

Jane Regan Wicked Local Somerville
What about in Somerville? According to a recent email I got from the City’s Assessing Department, “if the University was a taxable entity it would generate residential tax at $596,700 and commercial tax at $6,103,800.”

Thousands join March for Our Lives

Oliver Laughland and Lois Beckett The Guardian
March for Our Lives draws huge numbers of protesters. Trump spends weekend at Florida retreat of Mar-a-Lago

America Takes the Next Step Toward Tyranny

Andrew Sullivan New York Magazine
An important viewpoint on the dangers of Trump's abuse of power, but it neglects the power of people being organized against Trump.

Friday Nite Videos | March 23, 2018

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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: 'We Spent $1M Harvesting Millions of Facebook Profiles'. Hallelujah Parody - Letter to Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. Robert Mueller Is Following the Middle East Money. What 1,600 Students Think About School Shootings. New Scandal Shows Zuckerberg Still Puts Kremlin

Let's Call Bolton What He Is: A War Criminal With Terrorist Ties

Juan Cole Informed Comment
In John Bolton, now Trump’s National Security Adviser, the far right and the maniacal dovetail. Jesus said that if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a ditch. The ditch in this case could well be a ruinous war with Iran.

Donald Trump’s America | Already Hell Enough for This Muslim-American

Nate Terani Tom Dispatch
In our 241-year history that includes a bitter civil war, two world wars, and the Depression, this could turn out to be the most crucial moment of all. I can’t help but wonder in my bleaker moments whether there will be any coming back from the dark destination, whatever it turns out to be.

Parkland Students: Our Manifesto

Editorial staff of the Eagle Eye The Guardian
Three student editors of the Parkland Eagle Eye
After the massacre at our high school, our lives have changed forever – so we’re proposing these changes to halt mass shootings

Tidbits - March 22, 2018 - Reader Comments: Iraq War - 15 Years Later; Industrial Policy or Tariffs, Teachers; Prisons; Iran War?; Readers Debate Churchill, Stalin; Puerto Rico; Social Movements; Remembering Sharpeville; and more....

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Reader Comments: Iraq War - 15 Years Later; Labor, Industrial Policy, Tariffs, Teachers(West Virginia, Florida, Arizona); Prisons; Iran War?; Readers Debate Churchill, Stalin; Capitalism and Racism; Puerto Rico; Resource-Social Movements; Announcements; Remembering Sharpeville; and more....

Why Europe's Center-Left Keeps Losing Elections

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus
Voters can't tell the difference between the center left and the center right, and they don't want either. As the center-left accommodated itself to capital, it eroded its trade union base. Where center-left parties embraced unabashedly progressive policies, on the other hand, voters supported them