Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks.
Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks. New doctors from other countries account for one in six medical residents at U.S. teaching hospitals.
Readers Comments: Juneteenth Freedom Day; No to U.S. War with Iran; Real Democratic Civil War; Future of Left Jewish Identity; Suzanne Crowell - Presente; Hotline When People Have Immigration-Related Court Hearing; Live-stream Socialism Conference
In the early days of the Gilded Age’s rush for profit, freed people’s savings were siphoned off by politically connected financiers. Justene Hill Edwards’s Savings and Trust uncovers how finance cloaked dispossession in the language of uplift.
As Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense. He led soldiers in a display of behavior that ran contrary to everything the founder of the U.S. Army strove to imbue in the armed forces.
ICE’s primary targets under Trump: non-citizens involved in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and non-citizens who are Hispanic or Latino. ICE is also targeting immigrants of other ethnic backgrounds...who inflame the racist American imagination.
Readers Comments: Key Characteristics of Fascism; National Guard, Marines, 3000 Seized by ICE Each Day - Nuremberg Laws Went into Effect in 1935; No Kings Day - This Saturday in More Than 2000 Communities and Cities; Resources; Shorts; Cartoons; more
A time for rude awakenings and standing fast
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
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