Civil rights team ‘guilty of bogus allegations’ gets a financial death penalty until proven innocent
Over 50 years ago, when Morris Dees and Joe Levin founded the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the two attorneys intended to promote equal rights for all Americans, especially for racial minorities. As part of its attempt to strip America’s racial minorities of those rights, the Trump administration slapped the civil rights organization with a…
Social Security headed for 2032 cliff as Washington fiddles, new report warns
The checks that nearly 70 million Americans count on to keep food on the table and the lights on are now on a collision course with catastrophe. Social Security’s trust fund will run dry by the end of 2032, according to the annual financial report released Tuesday by the program’s trustees. That is three months…
The Ballad of Epic Fury Lost
By James J. Devine When Trump decreed from his gilded tower’s height,“Let Epic Fury burn through Persian night,”The jets took wing, the carriers churned the foam—A forty-day campaign to break Iran’s home.He swore on cable news, with jutting jaw,“We’ve crippled them, the greatest ever, flaw-less victory!” His thumbs blew digital smoke.But truth, that patient grave,…
Trump gutted the office that protected America’s most vulnerable students
The phone rang in a regional office of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. On the other end was a mother whose daughter had been sexually assaulted by a classmate. The school had done nothing. The girl was afraid to return to class. The mother had filed a complaint months earlier. She was calling…
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