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How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

Praise God and pass the data; Killing O’Reilly; Games then and now; Silly-con saga, parts I and II; Berkeley vs cellphone pushers

The Zookeeper’s Wife shows the Holocaust was not an easy existential battle fought between a massive evil machine and good, tough men. It was also made up of unrecorded domestic crimes, often of sexual aggression and abuse. What Caro makes clear is that a society that overlooks these transgressions is in dangerous territory. In attempting to understand these crimes and how to counter them, Caro challenges us to look closer to home, into the finer grain of the horror.

After a long and contentious struggle Hawaii's teachers negotiations team reaches an agreement with the state. They have unanimously recommended this contract to the membership.

With Cuba policy under the Trump administration still uncertain, Cuba solidarity activists seek to turn the tide against the embargo at the local and state level.

Janine Jackson interviewed Tony Romano about housing cuts for the March 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Tony Romano Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin170317Romano.mp3″]

How can a global garment value chain that relies on the systemic devaluation of female labour be expected to fulfil promises of empowerment for women informal workers? It can’t. Here’s why.

Follow the money. This old adage could not be more true now, as applied to the Trump Administration's budget, released on March 16, 2017 [1]. This cruel and greedy document [2-6] savages everything that we in public health and so many others know is necessary for people, communities, and our planet to thrive [7-9].

Police violence and interaction could be seen as particularly extreme forms of maternal stress. If one lives in a community that is frequently policed, the accumulative effects of these interactions can have health consequences more insidious than those caused by actual physical violence.

How institutions gift a veneer of respectability to white nationalists who promote racist pseudoscience.