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Debunking the Latest Corporate Climate Lie

July 15, 2022

These corporate fantasies of the future just don’t stand up to scrutiny. Three major flaws in net-zero pledges that make them a dangerous distraction from the crisis at hand.

What Are We Actually Seeing in the New James Webb Space Telescope Images?

July 15, 2022

The telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data, which uncovers a spectacular collection of cosmic features that have remained elusive until now, have finally been released.

July 15, 2022

Rail Union Members Could Go on Strike Monday Amid Contract Impasse Union Vote Makes Strike an Option As Negotiations Falter

Joanna Marsh FreightWaves

The railroads and their unions have been embroiled in a contract dispute since January 2020, with wages and health care benefits being major sticking points. Unless the White House acts, either party is free to exercise “self-help” options — including a strike that could occur as early as 12:01 a.m. next Monday.

July 15, 2022

A War Widow

Mira Hirschl How Memories Insist

As war returns to eastern Europe, the Croatian-born poet Mirna Hirschl depicts a personal sorrow.

July 14, 2022

Latest Hearing Makes Plain Why Unhinged Trump Should Face Charges

Robert Reich Robert Reich

The picture that emerged from yesterday's hearing is not dramatically different from what we've learned before — an unhinged man willing to do anything to maintain power, even at the cost of lives, law, and our democracy.

July 14, 2022

Dodger Stadium Concession Workers Threaten an All-Star Strike

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele Capital & Main

When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts. Yet since 2011, the teams’ average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today’s dollars) to $2.1 billion.

July 14, 2022

The Case That Could Blow Up American Election Law

Thomas Wolf and Ethan Herenstein The Atlantic

A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.

July 14, 2022

Responding to Children’s Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dorothee Benz, PH.D. Learning for Justice

With over 200,000 children experiencing the loss of a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are becoming grief counselors.

July 14, 2022

Tidbits – July 14, 2022 – Reader Comments: Hearings, GOP Witnesses Show Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, Religion; Librarians, Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day Weekend

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Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....

July 14, 2022

Unions Protect Democracy. How Do We Protect Unions?

Karen Nussbaum The Nation

Global labor leaders weigh in on the myriad ways the right is threatening organizing efforts. If we want to fight the global pandemic of right-wing extremism, w need to learn from each other, and operate with international solidarity.