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What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along.

Geico Workers Organizing in Amherst NY

J. Dale Shoemaker PopularResistance.org
Efforts to unionize the insurance giant’s suburban operation is met with pushback from management.

600 SUVs ‘Disarmed’ in One Night

Damien Gayle The Guardian
Tyre Extinguishers say ‘climate disaster’ vehicles targeted in nine countries including the UK, France and Canada .

 How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?

Dani McClain The Nation
 On Monday, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office announced that Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who killed Tamir Rice last year, would face no state criminal charges.

Special Report: Pentagon Thwarts Obama's Effort to Close Guantanamo

Charles Levinson and David Rohde Reuters
Since Obama took office in 2009, Pentagon officials have been throwing up bureaucratic obstacles to thwart the president's plan to close Guantanamo. Negotiating prisoner releases with the Pentagon was like "punching a pillow," said James Dobbins, the State Department special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2013 to 2014. Defense Department officials "would come to a meeting, they would not make a counter-argument," he said. "And then nothing would happen.