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January 3, 2020

New Ukraine Emails Tell a Damning Story

Kate Brannen Just Security

Newly obtained, unredacted documents make it clear the hold on Defense and State Department Ukraine funding came at the president’s direction

January 3, 2020

White Evangelical Christianity Has a Big Millennial Problem

Simon Lewis and Heather Timmons Reuters

Coziness with Donald Trump is exacerbating a long-term crisis facing white evangelicalism, some Christians say - it is being abandoned by younger generations

January 3, 2020

What Everyone Should Know About Reconstruction 150 Years After the 15th Amendment’s Ratification

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson The Conversation

150 years after the ratification of the 15th Amendment, an understanding what happened during Reconstruction is essential for exploring black power, resilience and excellence. Here are some resources for teaching Reconstruction.

Bernie Sanders' Remarks on Iran Following Suleimani Asassination

January 3, 2020

A quick and clear response to Donald Trump's most dangerous move toward war, potentially one more destructive than the invasion of Iraq

Vanishing Voters of Georgia Preview

January 3, 2020

The first in a series of reports by Greg Palast: “The Purged: The Vanishing Voters of Trump’s America” to be broadcast and made available to activists, churches and schools

Why Drugs Are So Expensive

January 3, 2020

Americans today spend more on pharmaceuticals per capita than anyone else in the world, and more than one in five say they have trouble affording their prescription drugs

Google and Amazon Are Now in the Oil Business

January 3, 2020

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are teaming up with Big Oil to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground using machine learning technology

Cadets Fired for Giving Nazi Salute

January 3, 2020

These West Virginia correctional cadets are all being fired after giving a Nazi salute while posing for a class photo

January 3, 2020

Centering

Lynne Knight Pedestal Magazine

The Canadian poet Lynne Knight adds a feminist/ecological turn to Copernicus’s classical paradigm shift about the earth circling the sun.

January 3, 2020

Trump Labor Board Escalates War on Workers’ Rights

BY William Lewis, Left Voice Truthout

The Trump NLRB — currently four unelected lawyers and an empty seat — changed the rules of the union election process without notice or comment from the public.