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Why Republicans Will Keep the House
7 Jul 2016 … Democrats are daring to dream. But as strong as Hillary Clinton looks against Donald Trump four months before Election Day – earlier this month, data whiz Nate Silver gave Trump only a 19 percent shot at beating the former secretary Continue reading
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Walter Bernstein Survived the Hollywood Blacklist – And Lived to Be 101
1 Jan 2021 … Screenwriter Walter Berrnstein was a brave opponent of right-wing repression during a dark period of our history. Continue reading
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Media, Morality and the Neighbor’s Cow
12 Dec 2016 … If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a’coming, you have only to read a piece that Gore Vidal wrote for Esquire magazine in July 1961, when the conservative movement was just beginning Continue reading
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Sheesh. What a Day.
8 Aug 2020 … cy landing, meeting medics who raced Navalny to the hospital, where he is gravely ill. The poisoning is a chilling reminder of Putin’s tactics just days after the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election established Continue reading
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‘Politics Ain’t the Same’ — How the 19th Amendment Changed American Elections
8 Aug 2016 … My mother was born in the United States of America without the right to vote. I just stopped to re-read that sentence because it seems so, you know, quaint. Okay, preposterous. By the time she neared voting age in 1920, Continue reading
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Donald Trump to Hungry Seniors: Drop Dead
5 May 2017 … The budget sent to Congress Tuesday for fiscal year 2018 puts the country’s schizophrenia over feeding hungry citizens back on the agenda — this time in the guise of defunding food programs for seniors, millions of whom are homebound, ill, Continue reading
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Morning Reads: Debate Night 2, the Other Refugee Crisis and the Kochs’ Ghostwriter
9 Sep 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
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Time or Money? U.S. Worker’s Dilemma. Steven Brill on America post-9/11.
4 Apr 2003 … Is a new bill in Congress putting corporate profits over workers’ rights? NOW examines the future of working overtime. Sponsors of the new bill in Congress say their legislation will give people the choice they’ve wanted: get paid for working Continue reading
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Hundreds of German Workers at Amazon Walk Off the Job
12 Dec 2013 … The union representing workers at Amazon in Germany say they receive lower wages than others in retail and mail-order jobs. Continue reading
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Trump’s Three Biggest Enablers
11 Nov 2016 … Even if he loses (and I believe he will), Donald Trump has done incalculable damage to America – eroding the trust and social cohesion the nation depends on. But he couldn’t have accomplished this without three sets of enablers. They Continue reading