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August 27, 2017

The Tick: Arthur’s Tale is a Powerful Message About Mental Illness

Kristy Puchko Comic Book Resources

By folding a discussion of mental illness and its stigmas into the series, The Tick has proven a powerful source of representation.

August 26, 2017

The Cure Worse than the Disease: Expelling Freeloaders in an Open-Shop State

Chris Brooks New Labor Forum

Based on my experience as an organizer for the Tennessee Education Association (TEA), it is clear that jettisoning exclusive representation might have solved the free-rider problem for the union, but it exacerbated the divide-and-conquer problem.

August 26, 2017

Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism

Gerald Epstein Dollars & Sense

This event, then, tied, in a sinister but clear way, Trump’s infrastructure plan with the racist, anti-Semitic, and neo-fascist members of Trump’s base movement .

August 26, 2017

Million-Dollar Question: How Much Should Nonprofit Hospital CEOs Earn?

Alicia Freese Seven Days

"The public is struggling to pay for health care," said Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden). "To see that the CEO of our hospital is getting $2 million ... it's just way out of whack with the Vermont economy."

Weekend Update: Pete Davidson on Colin Kaepernick

August 26, 2017

Pete Davidson discusses why Colin Kaepernick hasn't been hired by any NFL teams.

August 26, 2017

Korea and Afghanistan and the Trap of Never Ending Wars

Pepe Escobar CounterPunch

There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye. History has shown there is no military solution to either conflict, yet the Trump Administration has chosen bluster over diplomacy. The current US/South Korea military exercises, “a nuclear war game for the first time,” and more bombs for Afghanistan are just more steps along the path of endless war.

August 25, 2017