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Albania’s Self-Consuming Corruption Undermining Path to EU Accession
France argued that the EU must deepen integration among existing members and reform its unwieldy decision-making processes before it contemplates adding new countries. Moreover, political corruption, organized crime, and inequality, couple…
Our Immigrant Prisons Are an Atrocity … Children are Dying
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH--Over the past several weeks, the brutal terror that immigrants face at the hands of our government has come into even sha…
Congress Loves Socialized Health Care … For Itself
SOCIALISM OK FOR OUR ELECTEDS--For $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend t…
Celebrating Juneteenth With Bold New Ideas
OTHER WORDS-One day in late June 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. They carried some historic news:
Sorry Means Sometimes Having to Admit You're Racist
WHEN THEY SEE US: Not long ago, a few southern newspapers offered apologies for having vociferously opposed the civil rights movement.
Insidious Discrimination Against the Roma Is Europe’s Shame
WORLD WATCH-Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old Roma woman was physically attacked in the middle of the day in Kosovo, after a false accusation sp…
Ordinary Workers Now Have to Work Centuries to Make What Their CEOs Make in a Year
ECONOMY--Congratulations on that nice pay raise you got last year. A 7 percent hike — wow!
Celebrating Pride, Mindfully
OTHERWORDS--Happy Pride month! It’s June so it’s time to bust out the rainbows and… actually, I have a lot of conflicted feelings about it.
Are Republicans Happier Than Democrats Because They Have Fewer Choices?
VIEW FROM HERE--Have you ever stopped in the middle of the cereal aisle and stared blankly at the hundreds of brands to choose from?
Modernity and Civilization Offer No Shield Against Future Genocide
WORLD WATCH-The phenomenon of genocide has baffled historians for many generations.
This Is an Emergency. We Need the Democrats to Act Like It!
POLITICS--The youth-led Sunrise Movement staged a series of protests on Capitol Hill and across the country to demand lawmakers take urgent…
Why Mueller’s Press Conference In Fact Fell Flat
VIEW FROM HERE-According to a recent study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend an average of 16.8 minutes a day (or 0.28 of…
Putting Good Samaritans Behind Bars
IMMIGRATION 2019 STYLE-Let us now contemplate the morality tale of the Good Samaritan. Not the one in the New Testament, but the one out in…
No Excuse Left: Critics Say Mueller Can't Wriggle Out of Testimony to House
MUELLER REPORT FALLOUT--Robert Mueller may not want to testify to Congress about the findings of his two-year long probe into the President…
Bannon to Wolff: ‘Supporters will Turn When Tax Records Reveal Trump’s Just Another Scumbag’
RAW STORY REPORT--President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist believes a thorough investigation will reveal his family business is a “…
Harriet Tubman and Trump's Racist Agenda
VIEW FROM HERE-In 2016 a poll was conducted to find out which American the country wanted to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. When i…
The Genius of I.M. Pei … at the University of Rochester
VIEW FROM HERE-I.M. Pei, one of the world's most iconic and prolific architects, has died at the age of 102. Best known for his remarkable…
How to Lobby Washington to Death
GUEST COMMENTARY--A springtime wedding in Northern Yemen’s Al-Raqah village took place in April 2018, a moment of reprieve from the turmoil…
The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE IN YOUR HANDS--We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was…
War’s Unanswered Questions
PERSPECTIVE--“Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on, the U.S…
