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Exposed: Betsy DeVos’s Record Of Dismantling Student Protections

July 6, 2018

In a “Beat” special report, Ari Melber examines Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos’s track record of rolling back years of policy in ways that affect millions of students, including ending programs that support diversity in schools

Noam Chomsky: From Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear Abolition

July 6, 2018

Acclaimed writer and activist Noam Chomsky delivered the keynote address to a meeting titled Two Minutes to Midnight: How Do We Move from Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear Abolition? Co-organized by the International Peace Bureau and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office

July 6, 2018

Puerto Rico Confronts a New Hurricane Season — and Old Injustices

Basav Sen Foreign Policy in Focus

The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were magnified by inequalities of race, income, and access to U.S. political power.

July 6, 2018

Abolishing ICE Isn’t Radical — It’s Rational

Fizz Perkal OtherWords.org

ICE is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it's terrorizing refugees, families, and small children.

July 6, 2018

Sex and Gender Diversity Is Growing Across the US

Georgiann Davis The Conversation

Despite the challenges sex- and gender-diverse people face, their numbers will keep growing as sex- and gender-diverse movements get stronger, more people gain access to the internet and connect with other marginalized sex- and gender-diverse people.

July 6, 2018

A Rhyme of Two Fathers

Jed Myers Portside

Seattle poet Jed Myers puts himself in the shoes of a Mexican father as two men plan to cross international borders.

July 5, 2018

Why Mexico’s New President Is Nothing Like Trump

Seth Harp Rolling Stone

The U.S. media got the historic election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador all wrong. The winner by a landslide was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a socialist reformer and unabashed champion of the working class. It’s a hugely significant turn of events.

July 5, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won, How Did It Happen, What Does It Mean - Locally, In New York, Nationally

Michael Kinnucan; Ben Yee; Maria Svart

Kinnucan, Brooklyn DSAer tells about building the ground campaign, the need for socialist campaigns and coalition electoral efforts. Yee, Democratic State Committeeman analyzes the district, the candidate. Svart says, DSA is just getting started.

July 5, 2018

It’s The Other Way Around - Central American Immigrants Aren’t Invading Us. We Invaded Them.

John Tarleton The Indypendent

Welcoming Central American refugees is the smart thing to do. In time they will contribute much to our society. It’s the right thing to do. It gives us a chance to reckon with the history that brought them here and begin to take responsibility for it

July 5, 2018

‘I Can’t Stay Completely Silent’: Country Music’s Jason Isbell Looks Inward in Examining a ‘White Man’s World’

Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times

Jason Isbell, one of the most critically lauded singers and songwriters of the new millennium, raised questions about his own life experience, about the privileges he’s enjoyed, where those privileges came from and who paid what price to create them.