Escape Plans
Blackbird
Teacher and poet Anna Leigh Knowles is from Littleton, Colorado and knows a thing or two about guns and schools.
House Passes Bill to Rewrite Labor Laws and Strengthen Unions
The Washington Post
One of the most significant bills to strengthen workers’ abilities to organize in the past 80 years passed the House on Thursday, the latest sign of momentum for the labor movement.
Israel as Palestine: One State Is Not the Solution, But It Is the Reality
History News Network
The two-state solution is no longer a viable political objective or a useful plan for thinking about the problem. Officially, however, it is still honored, even by those who privately know the truth. It is, in effect, a “Dead Solution Walking.”
Why Impeachment Was Not a Mistake
The American Prospect
Republican devotion to the Great Dictator held. Trump is gloating. But impeachment responded to a challenge to democracy that had to be answered.
Kirk Douglas, Star of 'Spartacus,' Dead at 103
Los Angeles Times
The ‘Spartacus’ star helped end the Hollywood blacklist
Why the Economy Is Bad: The Great Affordability Crisis
The Atlantic
In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry
Sen. Mitt Romney's Full Statement on the Impeachment of Donald Trump
"Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine."
We Know Why Nancy Pelosi Tore Up Trump's Speech
New video obtained by The Late Show makes clear what Speaker Pelosi had in mind when she tore up her copy of President Trump's State of the Union address
Bob Marley at 75 | Redemption Song
Reggae great Bob Marley would have been 75 on Feb 6. In Redemption Song, Marley calls his listeners to action: "Won't you help to sing / These songs of freedom?"
The American Pie Is a Lot More Unequal Than People Imagine
WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?@TonyDokoupil turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what? pic.twitter.com/scGPKcHbie
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 31, 2020
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