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There’s No Defending Founding Fathers Who Practiced Slavery
This summer, on the very day that white supremacists rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was down the road visiting Montpelier — the home of James Madison, our fourth president. On the house tour, we stopped in Madison's upstairs library, where he spent hundreds of...
Me Too. And You. And You.
"Me too." I posted those words on Facebook recently, along with what seems like every woman I know. A post went viral asking each woman to write the words “Me too" if she'd been sexually assaulted or harassed. A man exposed himself to me once. Ten years ago. He was in...
Robots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs. Corporations Are.
There's a robot in your future. Not one of those cute little labor-saving automatons — like a "Roomba" vacuum cleaner. Far from saving you from doing extra labor, this new wave of robots is being brought into your workplace to rescue corporate bosses from paying you...
Grabbing ‘Em
In OtherWords: October 11, 2017
In the last week the Trump administration announced rollbacks to two major Obama-era rules: the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions (which we'll tackle soon) and an Obamacare requirement that employers offer birth control coverage through their insurance...
Your Boss Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care
When Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became law in 2010, it mandated coverage of birth control without co-payments. Some employers didn't like the rule, and Hobby Lobby hated it so much that the company filed a lawsuit to stop it. Company owners said they...
So Many Tax Lies, So Little Time
In most cases, it’s best practice to cut through the media noise and go straight to the source to understand what’s happening in public policy. Donald Trump’s tax plan is not one of those cases. The president is crisscrossing the country giving speeches to crowds...
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Paid for with Your Health Care
When Republican leaders tried to repeal health care in the spring and summer, many Americans raised the alarm and made a ruckus. We asked hard questions, looked at the independent analyses, held town halls, told our health care stories, and took to the streets....
What Happened to Trump’s Pledge to Close This Billionaire Loophole?
These are hard times for America's gold miners. They're scrambling to get ahead, but seeing their pay dropping. Take Bob Mercer, who's been a top miner for years, but last year even Bob was down. He pulled in only $125 million in pay. Can you feel Bob's pain? Well,...
Mourning in Vegas
