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Regulations Can Favor Some Businesses — And That’s Fine
As the Trump regime's anti-environment onslaught begins, there are several terms used by men (and in the case of Trump's cabinet, it's nearly all men) attempting to turn us against protecting the air we breathe and water we drink. Polluting industries become "job...
Wall Street Sodbusters
I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old homestead, and our rich rural culture. Less bucolic, however, is the fact that all those farms are part of a massive Wall Street investment scheme called...
RussiaGate
In OtherWords: February 15, 2017
As Donald Trump's so-called "Muslim ban" languishes in the courts, we're continuing our coverage of its impacts. This week, Jody Mashek shares what's she learned about the human costs of the order through her work with refugee families in the Midwest. Also this...
To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street
All too often these days, large U.S. corporations and Wall Street banks seem more interested in tapping overseas markets than in growing a customer base at home. When local communities in America's heartland suffer, it's no skin off their backs. By contrast, our...
The Human Cost of Trump’s Muslim Ban
Legal challenges to Donald Trump's "Muslim ban" are mounting. Federal judges have suspended the order, which blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspends refugee settlement from everywhere, while federal cases wind their way through the courts....
The End of an Alliance for Police Reform
In July 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch committed the Department of Justice to investigating the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man who was murdered by police outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The move represented the deepening of a tangible...
American Hellscape
In case you were wondering what Republicans have planned for the environment, it's now clear. Some of the ideas aren't new — like mining and logging our national forests. Or giving the green light to controversial oil pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline, which...
The Banksters Are Free at Last
Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress? Regular folks in our country might say that those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder — the poor and downtrodden working class — ought to be...
Attila the Trump
