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Five Constitutional Amendments for Right Now

Zachary B. Wolf CNN
There can be long periods where it feels impossible to amend the Constitution. But then conditions change and in a very short period of time there can be three, four or five amendments. The heart of the story is progressive change.

Baseball, Barbecue and Losing Freedom This Fourth of July

Howard Bryant ESPN
Grilling, baseball and fireworks, first replaced by symbols -- and now by a country tearing itself apart. July 4, 2022, falls in the midst of devastation. It is Independence Day in America with independence under current and relentless assault.

Uber Broke Laws, Duped Police and Secretly Lobbied Governments, Leak Reveals

Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O'Carroll The Guardian
More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian, Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne, Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal, Company used ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data, Former Uber CEO told executives ‘violence guarantees success’

Inflation Dos and Don’ts

Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker Project Syndicate
Today’s inflation is driven largely by supply-side constraints, which call for supply-side solutions. Such measures would do as much to tame higher prices as limited increases in interest rates would, and they would not come at the expense of American workers and the broader economy.

How the Supreme Court Could Turbocharge Gerrymandering — Just in Time for 2024

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Nathaniel Rakich FiveThirtyEight
An extreme embrace of the theory by the Supreme Court would hand legislatures power over every aspect of how federal elections are run, to the exclusion of not only state courts but also possibly other state actors like governors and election administrators.