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How white supremacy prevented America from having single-payer healthcare
1 week ago

How white supremacy prevented America from having single-payer healthcare

Raw Story  

In the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, Americans are wondering out loud why we’re getting ripped off by giant insurance companies when every other developed country in the world has healthcare as a right and pays an average of about half of what we do — and gets better outcomes. While Black people might have more …

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USA: Vivek Ramaswamy dismayed by New York's $220-million deal with Pakistan-owned hotel
3 weeks, 2 days ago

USA: Vivek Ramaswamy dismayed by New York's $220-million deal with Pakistan-owned hotel

Op India  

Following his return to the White House, US President-Elect Donald Trump has constituted a Department of Government Efficiency. Posting on X, Author John LeFevre wrote, “The city of New York pays $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants. The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the deal was part of …

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Explained: What is ‘Manhattan Project’ that Trump called his new government’s efficiency initiative, led by Elon Musk
1 month, 1 week ago

Explained: What is ‘Manhattan Project’ that Trump called his new government’s efficiency initiative, led by Elon Musk

Live Mint  

US President-elect, Donald Trump has named Tesla CEO, Elon Musk and Indian-American entrepreneur, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the 'Department of Government Efficiency' in his government. The President-elect dubbed DOGE as a potential ‘Manhattan Project.’ “It will become, potentially, The Manhattan Project of our time,” Trump said, referring to the speedy operation during World War II to design the first atomic …

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Column: Has Trump just repeated the PR disaster that cost Herbert Hoover his reelection?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Column: Has Trump just repeated the PR disaster that cost Herbert Hoover his reelection?

LA Times  

Donald Trump addresses the New York rally on Sunday at which speakers uttered ethnic and racial slurs. The occasion evokes the line sometimes attributed to Mark Twain that “History doesn’t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” For the attack on the Bonus Army and the Madison Square Garden rally share features that could bind them together as campaign turning …

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The shocking truth behind the GOP's MAGA lie machine
6 months ago

The shocking truth behind the GOP's MAGA lie machine

Raw Story  

Hitler’s brilliant propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, famously told the Fuhrer, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Donald Trump and the MAGA faction of the Republican Party have taken Goebbels’ advice to heart, and it’s going to make this fall’s election one like we’ve never seen before. Already they’ve been lying so often and so effectively that …

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How to recreate Britney Spears’ Crossroads American road trip
10 months ago

How to recreate Britney Spears’ Crossroads American road trip

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From a lucrative karaoke contest in a ‘dive bar’ to route planning sessions over waffles, the trio and their male …

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Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away
1 year, 1 month ago

Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away

Salon  

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past — George Orwell, "1984" The historian is a prophet looking backwards. Only recently has he become subject to critical evaluation, with Civil War scholar Eric Foner calling Freeman’s works on Lee “hagiography.” Freeman's work, along with many other encomiums, resulted in a cult of Lee and …

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On this day: Remembering historic events that happened on 20 January
1 year, 11 months ago

On this day: Remembering historic events that happened on 20 January

Firstpost  

On 20 January 2021, Kamala Harris scripted history by becoming the first female, first black and first Asian-American vice-president of the United States. 20 January- Historic Events: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office for the fourth time; 1945: On 20 January 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his inaugural address from the balcony of the White House to the American …

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Today in History: December 10, Teddy Roosevelt first American to win Nobel Prize
2 years ago

Today in History: December 10, Teddy Roosevelt first American to win Nobel Prize

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying …

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Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US
2 years, 10 months ago

Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US

Al Jazeera  

From New Deal liberalism in the 1930s to the academic culture wars of the 1980s and the rise of Donald Trump, how white fears of losing power led to philanthropy that openly discouraged discussions of race and diversity. African Americans’ demand for the expansion of civil rights fuelled the eventual creation of a “conservative labyrinth” of philanthropy foundations, think tanks …

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Thanksgiving story and free enterprise: How the right has taken the holiday for its own.
54 years, 11 months ago

Thanksgiving story and free enterprise: How the right has taken the holiday for its own.

Slate  

Google “Thanksgiving” and “free enterprise” and you will find links to articles on conservative and libertarian think tank websites with titles like “How Communism Almost Ruined the First Thanksgiving,” “Thanksgiving is a Celebration of Free Enterprise,” and “Thanksgiving, Socialism, and Free Enterprise.” These pieces, remarkable in their ideological consistency, are the product of decades of mythmaking, begun before the internet …

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Reaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps
3 years, 7 months ago

Reaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps

NPR  

Reaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR With college classes going online because of COVID-19, Joe Spofforth put his double major in political economies and educational studies on hold to move West and find work. Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR A part …

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Joe Biden Wants An 'FDR-Size Presidency.' What Does That Even Mean?
3 years, 7 months ago

Joe Biden Wants An 'FDR-Size Presidency.' What Does That Even Mean?

Huff Post  

Less than a month into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count rose, businesses remained closed and Americans banged pots from their windows and on their front porches to celebrate frontline health care workers, Joe Biden mused in an interview with CNN about the scope of the problem facing the country. One month later, New York Magazine ran a story …

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Column: Is Biden the next FDR? That depends on what you think about the New Deal
3 years, 8 months ago

Column: Is Biden the next FDR? That depends on what you think about the New Deal

LA Times  

Then and now: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain posted these paired photos of FDR’s and Biden’s cabinets, making the parallels explicit. Advantages for Biden, because the New Deal remains the repository of cherished Democratic Party values and progressive achievement even today, eight decades after FDR’s inauguration. Another hive of anti-New Deal activity was the Democratic Party’s Wall Street …

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Biden’s COVID Bill Is His First Step Toward an FDR-Style Presidency
54 years, 11 months ago

Biden’s COVID Bill Is His First Step Toward an FDR-Style Presidency

Slate  

President Joe Biden and Democratic legislative leaders were extremely clear about how they hoped to govern when they won full control of Washington for the first time in more than a decade. At the same time, Democrats were clearly dogged by the memory of the Great Recession, when the Obama administration’s failure to pass a sufficiently large stimulus package set …

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Budgeting in a time of crisis
3 years, 10 months ago

Budgeting in a time of crisis

The Hindu  

The Great Depression wrecked the economies of the U.S. and Europe. His $1.9 trillion plan proposes $1,400 per-person payments, increased unemployment benefits, assistance to local governments, support for accelerated vaccine rollout, investments to get children back in school, and a minimum wage of $15 an hour. We can run a ‘hot economy’ with low unemployment and large budget deficits, without …

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Analysis: Biden issues call to unity that comes with urgency
3 years, 11 months ago

Analysis: Biden issues call to unity that comes with urgency

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As newly inaugurated leaders often do, President Joe Biden began his tenure with a ritual call for American unity. But standing on the same Capitol steps where just two weeks ago violent rioters laid siege to the nation’s democracy, Biden’s words felt less like rhetorical flourishes and more like an urgent appeal to stabilize a country reeling from …

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Inaugural address: Biden crafts speech to unify a country in crisis
3 years, 11 months ago

Inaugural address: Biden crafts speech to unify a country in crisis

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Joe Biden has spoken volumes inside the US Capitol over more than four decades, but the weight of those words does not approach the magnitude of the message he will deliver on its steps during his inaugural address Wednesday. “Despite all that’s happened, despite all that the country has endured, his message never strayed from restoring the …

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The art show of 2020 shows Mexican influence on American art
4 years ago

The art show of 2020 shows Mexican influence on American art

LA Times  

There is perhaps no more satisfying sendoff to the xenophobia of the Trump era than an exhibition that rewrites American art history and, in the process, makes it more Mexican. That exhibition is “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945,” which opened at New York’s Whitney Museum in February and, one pandemic later, has miraculously managed to remain on …

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Kyle MacLachlan: ‘Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor was his moral compass. The people around our current president are not of that stature’
4 years, 2 months ago

Kyle MacLachlan: ‘Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor was his moral compass. The people around our current president are not of that stature’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He sees a niche for me in the things that he does,” says MacLachlan matter-of-factly, …

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Portland protestors deface, knock down Roosevelt, Lincoln statues in ‘rage’ against Columbus Day
4 years, 2 months ago

Portland protestors deface, knock down Roosevelt, Lincoln statues in ‘rage’ against Columbus Day

Firstpost  

Dubbing the day as the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day of Rage’, protestors smashed windows at the Oregon Historical Society and damaged a quilt sewn by 15 Black women in the 1970s Portland: Protesters in Portland overturned statues of former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and vandalised the Oregon Historical Society in a declaration of “rage” toward Columbus Day. Protest organisers …

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Of presidents and health, history replete with secrecy, lies
4 years, 2 months ago

Of presidents and health, history replete with secrecy, lies

Live Mint  

Throughout American history, an uncomfortable truth has been evident: Presidents have lied about their health. After a rosy press conference by the president's medical team, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Saturday that Trump had gone through a “very concerning” period Friday and that the next 48 hours would be critical in terms of his care. White House …

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Column: Ginsburg’s death makes Supreme Court expansion much more urgent
4 years, 3 months ago

Column: Ginsburg’s death makes Supreme Court expansion much more urgent

LA Times  

Supreme Court in transition: Since this 2018 photo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, giving President Trump a chance to move the court even further to the right. With the Supreme Court firmly in the hands of conservatives, constitutional scholar Garrett Epps wrote in the Atlantic in 2018, “The Court’s progress on LGBT rights will almost certainly come to an end; …

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Column: How FDR’s vice president warned against the fascism of Trump
4 years, 4 months ago

Column: How FDR’s vice president warned against the fascism of Trump

LA Times  

Philosophers through the ages have remarked on how history moves in circles, not a straight line — that “there is no new thing under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes would have it. Wallace’s subject in an essay published in the New York Times on April 9 that year was “the danger of American fascism,” and his warning seems to have come …

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