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NEWS: Trump Just Fulfilled His Billionaire Pal’s Dream
6 Jun 2020 … A Labor Department letter could help Trump’s private equity donors fleece 100 million workers. The letter follows a $3 million super PAC donation from a Wall Street titan pushing for the change. Continue reading
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‘Note to the Addict Who Robbed Us on a Landscaping Job’
4 Apr 2017 … April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. All month, we’ll be posting poems and discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter Continue reading
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July 4th Note to Tea Partiers: Your Politics Would Baffle the Founding Fathers
7 Jul 2014 … Historian Jill Lepore says that the debates of 240 years ago offer no insight into those of today. Continue reading
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Bill Moyers Commentaries
12 Dec 1986 … In the 1980s, Bill Moyers was the principal analyst on the CBS Evening News. Here are a few notable essays he produced during that period. Continue reading
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TV News and Its Long Dark Night of the Soul
11 Nov 2016 … Last week I met a prominent network personage I will call Sandra. I asked her what had been going on in her shop since election night. “Soul-searching,” she said. Approvingly, I commiserated, then asked what kind of soul-searching she meant. Continue reading
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Good News for Mother Earth: Solar, Wind Power Becoming Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
11 Nov 2014 … Years of heavy investments in renewable energy technology appears to be paying off. Continue reading
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Memo Restoring Use of Private Prisons Is Good News for One Company
2 Feb 2017 … Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ four-sentence memo rescinding Justice Department guidance to reduce the use of private prisons sent stock soaring for the two companies that dominate the industry, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America). That’s not necessarily because the memo Continue reading
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Unsanitized: Vaccine News Should Make People More Cautious of COVID
11 Nov 2020 … Pfizer is out this morning saying that an early look at its Phase 3 trial for the coronavirus vaccine shows that there’s been a 90 percent effectiveness rate. It’s important to begin with the point that this is preliminary and not Continue reading
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Kyle Dargan Reads ‘Note to the Addict Who Robbed Us on a Landscaping Job’
4 Apr 2013 … In this web extra, poet Kyle Dargan reads his poem about theft and desperation in hard economic times. Continue reading
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Why Big Cable Is Bad News for the Internet
5 May 2016 … I’m going to let you in on a little secret about the Internet: Big cable companies hate it. That’s a bad thing because for most Americans big cable companies are the on-ramps to the wired world. And big cable companies Continue reading