| Apr 21, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyA House bill to study reparations for slavery, H.R. 40, resurfaced in committee this April and is dusting up old debates about how much is owed, to whom, and who should pay. The issue can be divisive. But as a supporter of reparations, a recent Jeopardy clue (of all...
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| Apr 9, 2021 | RoundupWe’re taking a few days off this week. We’ll have more new pieces to share next week, but for now I hope I can entice you to take an extra look at some of these excellent offerings from recent weeks. Thanks as always for reading and re-publishing....
| Apr 7, 2021 | RoundupOver the past week, Republicans have complained bitterly about corporations who’ve made statements about protecting the right to vote — telling them to “stay out of politics,” even after accepting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThe past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: 1) “We don’t have the money.” The power elites tell us it would be nice to do the big-ticket reforms America needs, but the money just isn’t there. Then a pandemic...