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Rudy Giuliani Defends Trump | Our Cartoon President

September 7, 2018

President's attorney Rudy Giuliani appears on Anderson Cooper to defend President Trump

Obama Rebukes Trump Ahead of Midterm Elections

September 7, 2018

Barack Obama says Donald Trump is a "symptom, not the cause" of division and polarization in the U.S.

Inside the Trauma of Family Separation

September 7, 2018

An unflinching look at one family's chaotic experience being forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

September 7, 2018

Holding a Place for Humankindness to Go

Phyllis Klein Portside

The subject of Phyllis Klein’s poem is homelessness and a simple, albeit personal solution.

September 6, 2018

While Trump Clearly Horrible President, Critics Denounce Right-Wing 'Unelected Cabal' Represented by Anonymous Op-Ed

Jon Queally Common Dreams

Trump is a threat, but so too are the right-wing ideologues who surround him imposing a form of efficiency to implement their agendas. We should fear Trump, and we should fear the oped author. Both are dangerous.

September 6, 2018

What Would a Socialist America Look Like?

Politico Magazine Politico

We asked thinkers on the left—and a couple of outliers—to describe their vision for a re-imagined American economy. Just a decade ago, “socialism” was a dirty word in American politics. Not anymore.

September 6, 2018

It's Not the 'Future of Work,' It's the Future of Workers That's in Doubt (long)

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, & Joseph A. McCartin The American Prospect

A call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers' advocates. It is the concentration of wealth and power in this new economy, not computerization or artificial intelligence, that represents the gravest threat to our future.

September 6, 2018

From Mollie Tibbetts' Father: Don't Distort Her Death to Advance Racist Views

Rob Tibbetts, Guest columnist Des Moines Register

Politicians and pundits used Mollie’s death to promote various political agendas. We appealed to them and they graciously stopped. Sadly, others have ignored our request. They have instead chosen to callously distort and corrupt Mollie’s tragic death

September 6, 2018

A Postcard from Ursula LeGuin

John Crowley Boston Review

An homage to the then recently deceased, superlative science fiction writer who encouraged the author, an apprentice novelist adrift in the publishing world, to be a better reader as well as an accomplished scribbler of exemplary fiction.

September 6, 2018

Tidbits - Sept. 6, 2018 - Reader Comments: My Lai, Vietnam Remembered; Mollie Tibbbetts, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams; Chicago 1968; New York Farmworker Leader Detained; Resources: Freedomways; 1968 Columbia; Announcements; and more....

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Reader Comments: My Lai, Vietnam War; Mollie Tibbbetts, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, Racism of the Right; Chicago 1968; New York Farmworker Leader Detained; Jesse Lemisch - R.I.P.; Resources: Freedomways; 1968 Columbia; Announcements; and more....