Household Debt: How the Bottom Half Bolsters the Booming U.S. Economy

Jonathan Spicer Reuters
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The U.S. economy is booming. But the dramatic increase in jobs isn’t increasing wages and the growth in consumer spending has primarily been fueled by the bottom 60 percent of earners, who are exhausting their savings and piling up serious debt.

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Amber's Minute of Fury: R. Kelly

Late Night writer Amber Ruffin focuses a minute of fury on R. Kelly, whom after decades of accusations of sexual misconduct released a 19-minute song called "I Admit It."

They Thought This Was Trump Country. Hell No.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders visited Wichita, Kansas, to woo progressives in support of congressional candidate James Thompson. Is the red state ready to turn blue?

The Young MLK Already Had Socialist Ideas

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking
A new book argues that King’s suspicion of American capitalism and his passion for economic justice did not represent a turn in his last tumultuous years. They were there all along.