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Colorado Requires Free Lunches for Kids in School. Here’s Why Other States Should Follow
During the pandemic, schools were allowed to treat the idea of feeding students to be as essential as educating them. That’s how it should be all the time.
Meeting Union Demands Would Be a Win-Win for Automakers
But with corporations insistent on squeezing more profits no matter the cost, strikes are inevitable — and necessary.
Howard Schultz: Union Buster in Chief
The Starbucks CEO has stepped down. His legacy? The destruction of an iconic brand with sloppy, sleazy union busting.
The GOP’s Culture Wars Would Be Laughable If They Weren’t Deadly
Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich the already wealthy.
Taking A Hard Look At Police Killings
Last year was the deadliest on record for police killings in the United States. According to a Washington Post database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people in 2022.
Tackling Inflation by Rewarding the Rich is a Fool’s Errand
British Prime Minister Liz Truss recently resigned after just 45 days in office, disgraced by her own economic prescriptions. There’s a lesson here for the United States, a nation beset by similar economic troubles.
Selfishness Fuels the War on Abortion
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was as predictable as it was shocking. Right-wing forces have spent years working to erase the right to abortion, and — for now — they have won.
Ugh. People Who Want to Ban Abortion But Access the Procedure When They Need It
The Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was predictable even as it was shocking. Right-wing forces have spent years working painstakingly on multiple fronts in plain sight to ensure that the right to an abortion would no longer be guaranteed, and they have won. Two of the three Supreme Court Justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, who were appointed by former President Donald Trump, stand accused of lying about their positions on abortion. A third, Justice Clarence Thomas, invited challenges to same-sex marriage and the right to contraception as part of his undoing of Roe, hinting at the right wing’s future targets.
How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids To The Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?
Mass shootings are good for gun sales.