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Why Saving Kids Is Bad Business in America

January 20, 2023

Profit-driven management has eroded pediatric health care in America. Health care providers make more money treating adults than they do children.

ARGENTINA, 1985 | Movie

January 20, 2023

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

January 20, 2023

Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour To Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

BILLY PERRIGO TIME

The story of the workers who made ChatGPT possible offers a glimpse into the conditions in this little-known part of the AI industry.

January 20, 2023

Hanging Mohsen on the Gallows

Majid Naficy

The Persian poet Majid Naficy still awakens at night, mourning friends and family, victims of the Iranian regime.

January 19, 2023

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January 19, 2023

In Major Rebuke, New York Senate Committee Rejects Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Court Pick

Prem Thakker The New Republic

The judiciary committee voted not to advance the nomination of Hector LaSalle, setting up a likely legal fight between the governor and state Democrats. Gov. Hochul threated to hire a litigator to sue the State Senate to take up the nomination.

January 19, 2023

The MAGA Threat Is Greater Today Than It Was in 2020

Max Elbaum Convergence

McCarthy got his gavel, but MAGA pulls his strings. The GOP is comfy with armed fascists, SCOTUS is rolling back the 20th century. Time to get busy.

January 19, 2023

Let’s Remember That Martin Luther King’s Dream Included Full Employment for All

William P. Jones and Algernon Austin MarketWatch

Despite important strides that the United States has made toward racial equality in the 60 years since the March on Washington, we have yet to address the persistent poverty and unemployment that turned Martin Luther King’s dream “into a nightmare.”

January 19, 2023

The Israeli Right Is the Minority — The Left Need Only Realize It

Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine

It’s time for the Jewish left to understand that by aligning its struggle with the Palestinians, it can be part of a majority against occupation and apartheid.

January 19, 2023

Tidbits – Jan. 19, 2023 – Reader Comments: Martin Luther King-A True and Visionary Radical; Israel Under Netanyahu; Socialism in Our History – Wisconsin, Superman, Barbara Kingsolver; Brazil; Medicare Under Attack; Cartoons; More…

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Reader Comments: Martin Luther King-A True and Visionary Radical; Israel under Netanyahu; Socialism in Our History - Wisconsin, Superman, Barbara Kingsolver; Brazil; Medicare under Attack; Cartoons; Resources; Announcements; more....