Brexit: May’s Sweatbox
A short overview of Constitutional and procedural issues that impact Brexit.
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Medicare For All — The Democratic Party Audition for 2020
The debate over Medicare for All is forcing Team Dem to show its true colors.
Read more...Brexit’s Primitive Passions Could Bring Havoc to Ireland – and Far Beyond
Brexit is revealing the bad side of some Brits.
Read more...Kamala Harris, Opportunist to the Core: Launches Prez Bid on MLK Day, Since She Has to Remind People She’s Black After Criminalizing Truancy, Keeping CA Prison Rolls Up to Provide Cheap Labor; Sends Tone-Deaf, Narcissistic Campaign E-mail
Kamala Harris seems to assume that voters are easy marks.
Read more...8 Percent of Americans Recently Changed Their Minds on Climate. What Gives?
If you’re trying to get someone to open their mind, you might consider the idea of a having tough, nuanced conversation … and actually hearing them out.
Read more...The Social Contract According to Elizabeth Warren
Warren on Uber, Federal taxes, #MedicareForAll, and theories of changes.
Read more...Trump’s Space Force: Nuclear Lunacy
Why Trump’s effort to revive Reagan’s “Star Wars” vaporware increases the risk of nuclear war.
Read more...The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...How Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter School Agenda
Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools.
Read more...France’s Great Debate
One in two French citizens wants to participate in Macron’s Great Debate across France. High stakes for Macron and French democracy.
Read more...Brexit: Chasing Their Tails
More Brexit dithering, but at higher velocities.
Read more...Repeating the Mistakes of 1914?
n their enthusiasm for a new cold war against China and Russia, the western establishments of today are making a mistake comparable to that of their forebearers in 1914.
Read more...Brexit: Chaos
Despite May’s epic Brexit loss, she’s still barely changed her course of action.
Read more...The Shutdown Will Harm the Health and Safety of Americans, Even After It’s Long Over
Another set of shutdown costs.
Read more...Do Not Disturb: The Right to Disconnect
New York’s City Council has scheduled a hearing Thursday to debate a measure to enshrine a right to disconnect – which would bar firms from requiring workers to check e-mail or other electronic communications outside the normal workday unless their contracts specify otherwise.
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