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June 24, 2017

Revisiting Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels In America’ In The Trump Era

Liam Hoare Jewish Daily Forward

But "Angels" is also about everything, and thus its ire and angst are sprayed across two plays and seven and a half hours like bullets from an automatic rifle.

June 24, 2017

Israel’s P.R. Campaign is Failing: The More Americans Know, The Less Favorable They Are

Phillip Weiss Mondoweiss

The study says that Americans have learned a lot more about Israel since 2010, but that knowledge has fostered the country’s unfavorable reputation, and fed the “delegitimization” campaign, because Americans increasingly feel that Israel does not share their values.

June 24, 2017

Single-Payer Healthcare for California is, in Fact, Very Doable

Robert Pollin Los Angeles Times

Is Healthy California economically viable? According to research I conducted with three colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the answer is yes.

Jesse Winchester | Step by Step

June 24, 2017

Song by Jesse Winchester, from The Wire, Season 1. Winchester opposed the Vietnam War, moved to Canada in 1967, and after a Presidential amnesty in 1977 resettled in the United States.

Trumpcare Protesters Block Hallway Outside McConnell's Office

June 24, 2017

A group of protesters blocked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office on June 22nd to oppose the GOP health-care bill and cuts to Medicaid.

June 24, 2017

“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child

Kathy Kelly Portside

This week representatives from more than 100 countries began work on an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons. By boycotting this process the U.S. and other nuclear armed nations showed they have no intention of giving up the power to annihilate planetary life. A world in arms is theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed; it steals the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

June 23, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | June 23, 2017

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Mueller Team Paints Picture of Trump-Russia Investigation. Jesse Winchester | Step by Step. We May Not Have Heard the End of the Tapes. Trumpcare Protesters Block Hallway Outside McConnell's Office. Randy Bryce Announces for Paul Ryan's Seat in Congress.