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  1. The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
    8 Aug 2013 … The foreclosure crisis hit African Americans particularly hard with disastrous consequences for many communities, writes Laura Gottesdiener. Continue reading
  2. Trump’s Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists Trump Tower in Manhattan on Oct. 8, 2016. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … This post was first published on CounterPunch. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he liked the uneducated and that once he assumed the presidency, he would appoint a range of incompetent people to high-ranking positions that Continue reading
  3. Papal Tweets of Note Pope Francis greets the faithful as he leaves the village of Castel Gandolfo, the pontiffs' summer residence in the hills overlooking Rome in August. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
    12 Dec 2013 … Pope Francis took over the papal Twitter feed earlier this year. He tweets about the same topics he speaks about: the importance of caring for those less fortunate than ourselves and what it means to live charitably. Here's a sampling. Continue reading
  4. The Trump GOP Prescription for America: Don’t Get Sick Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks at a press conference with House Republicans to discuss health care reform in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump still insists he’s going to Make America Great Again! Mind you, it won’t be a healthy or vigorous America — in fact, it will be coughing and wheezing to the grave, but boy, will Continue reading
  5. The Revolt of the Cities Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio smiles during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
    5 May 2014 … In one major city after another, newly elected officials are planning to raise the minimum wage or enact ordinances boosting wages in developments that have received city assistance. They are drafting legislation to require inner-city hiring on major projects and Continue reading
  6. One Cheer and a Half for Re-Election
    11 Nov 2012 … Perhaps one cheer and a half for the re-election of Obama. He is at best a moderate Republican to judge by his first term, a better bet on the future than Romney, and yet not what our desperate times need, Continue reading
  7. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Urgency of Fighting Against the Racist Right-Wing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivering the keynote commencement speech at Hampshire College's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
    10 Oct 2017 … Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor at the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. After Taylor called Donald Trump “a racist, sexist megalomaniac” at a commencement speech earlier this year, she received several deaths threats, leading her to Continue reading
  8. La Guardia’s the Name and Boy, Could We Use Him Now New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt share a laugh together, circa 1944. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2016 … One of the most awkward interviews I ever conducted in my life was with Marie La Guardia, widow of the late three-term mayor of New York City, the legendary Fiorello H. La Guardia. She was 86 at the time. I Continue reading
  9. Business Is Hyper-Organized. Shouldn’t Workers Be, Too?
    1 Jan 2014 … Powerful business groups are mounting an aggressive campaign against worker advocacy groups, which have become better organized in recent years. Continue reading
  10. Bill Moyers Essay: What’s the Truth Behind the Sunny New Unemployment Numbers? Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in July 1981.
    1 Jan 1984 … Bill tells the story of Ron Bricker, an out-of-work man who asked President Reagan for help finding a job, only to end up making less than he did on unemployment. Continue reading