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How Does Trump’s Immigration Freeze Square With His Business Interests?
Even as President Trump takes steps to restrict visitors from some majority-Muslim countries, he and his family continue to do business in some of the others. Ethics experts question whether…
Silicon Valley is debating how far to go to fight Donald Trump’s executive order
SAN FRANCISCO — As news about President Trump’s temporary ban on immigrants and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries filtered through Silicon Valley on Saturday, tech leaders from firms such as Apple and Tesla…
At Goldman Sachs, executives go from ‘persona non grata’ to White House insiders
NEW YORK — Few companies have benefited more from the record-breaking surge in stock prices since the election of President Trump than Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs. The big bank’s’…
New Mexico income equality among worst in U.S.
The gap between the rich and the poor continued to widen in New Mexico in 2015, with the top 5 percent of households earning an average of $254,096 and the…
Capito signs on to support Affordable Care Act substitute
“Some of my colleagues have argued for immediate repeal without any replacement”, Collins said on the Senate floor, “an option that I reject for it risks leaving millions of vulnerable…
CEO Pay Targeted in San Francisco, Rhode Island
San Francisco and Rhode Island are aiming business tax surcharges at companies with chief executive officers whose compensation is 100 times greater than their median worker’s pay. The legislation builds…
What links the NHS and US healthcare? Bad political choices
When the lifelong Republican Jeff Jeans recently questioned the House of Representatives Republican speaker, Paul Ryan, about the party’s healthcare proposals, Ryan probably expected him to oppose Obamacare. However, Jeans, who…
Chilling Vision Of A Barbaric New World Order
SPLINTERLANDS, an intriguing near-novella set in 2050, conjures a dystopian vision of a new barbaric age defined by conflict and confusion. This is a Lord-of-the-Flies scenario on a global scale.…
Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
Today, Donald Trump will be inaugurated the nation’s 45th president. Looking back, former Pres. Barack Obama may be remembered as America’s postmodern version of the Little Dutch Boy, the kid who plugged his finger…
U.S. unionists back domestic worker from India
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Showing solidarity across continents, a group of U.S. unionists, members of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), made it quite clear to India’s ambassador to the U.S. that his…
Community leaders weigh progress in race relations
Race relations in the United States have a long, complex history. A nation that is deeply rooted in issues of race has reacted both to the election of its first…
Opinion: Higher education should not be treated as a business
The future of Kennesaw State University might have been shifted because of the appointment of Attorney General Sam Olens as the new president of the university. Despite heavy opposition from…
‘Look where we’ve come’ (VIDEO)
Race relations in the United States have a long, complex history. A nation that is deeply rooted in issues of race has reacted both to the election of its first…
Let’s not forget — Martin Luther King Jr. was preaching economic justice, too
“Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not only for celebration and remembrance, education and tribute, but above all a day of service,” wrote King’s widow, Coretta Scott King. In Atlanta,…
Are Democrats Still the Lesser Evil?
Since Election Day, it has felt as if American politics is unfolding in a dream world; the old moorings have gone missing and nothing any longer makes sense. But with…
Well-Intended, Well-Resourced Policies Aren’t Enough to Close the Racial Wealth Divide
Just 9 days from today, President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office. While many questions still remain as to what the new President will do once in office,…
Billionaires Celebrate Their Own Social Security Freedom Day
Ninety-four percent of us pay into Social Security from every paycheck we receive. A few of us stop paying into Social Security in the first few working hours of the…
Anti-Drone Movement Speaks: ‘End the Secrecy, No to Kill List’
Activists from across the globe kicked off the largest-ever anti-drone summit Friday with a boisterous White House rally then march to the headquarters of one of the most notorious weapons…
Duterte’s controversial drug war: 6 months, 6,000 deaths in the Philippines
MANILA — Sammer Torculas had just returned home from playing with his children outside inPandacan, a lower-middle-class district in the Philippine capital, when he heard a knock at the door. Several men with guns drawn stormed into the…
Federally-Funded ‘Peace’ Institute Providing Platform for War Mongers and Torture Cheerleaders
A federally-funded “peace” institute that claims to be independent and nonpartisan will feature a lineup of staunch military interventionists and torture cheerleaders at a conference about “passing the baton” to…
Goethe-Institut Announces Transatlantic Theater Project Exploring the Value of Privacy
The Goethe-Institut has announced plans for The Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays (P3M5), a transatlantic theater project initiated to explore the value of privacy. In cooperation with the…
Under Jeff Sessions, drug legalization and sentencing reforms will go up in smoke
Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, and hundreds of thousands of people are arrested every year for smoking, growing, or selling the drug. But over the past eight years,…
Racial wealth gap is wide and growing larger: 228 year gap for black families, 84 year gap for Latino families
If black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace as the past three decades, it will take more than 200 years for black families in the U.S. to have the…
Tax change may impact your giving
In the early 1980s, as a very young nonprofit executive director, I experienced the impact of political change, or rather the impact of the predictions of change. On Jan. 20,…
Economic Recovery Mostly A Myth For The 99 Percent
The famous United States stock index known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or simply the Dow) flirted with approaching a historic high of 20,000. The index, which shows how…
OP-ED: Demand Cannabis Equity
Do you remember childhood challenge games? I remember competitions to see who could hold their breath the longest. It was a fun contest that required no resources. As an adult,…
Roundtable on UN Security Council Resolution 2334: Reflections by Noura Erakat, Mouin Rabbani, Sherene Seikaly, Mark LeVine, Daud Abdullah
The most significant aspect of UNSC Resolution 2334 is that it forms the first break with an otherwise absolute US policy to obstruct every Palestinian effort to resist Israeli expansion,…
Glover: History of America About ‘Annexation’ and ‘Violence’
Actor and political activist Danny Glover challenged the United States to figure out ways to rectify the violence committed against people of color, describing America’s history as one of “annexation”…
Even in the nonprofit world, average Americans are getting squeezed out by the 1%
The majority of philanthropic giving has always primarily come from the rich, given that they have most of the money. As inequality has risen in the US over the last…
The Scandal of Vast Inequality in Retirement Pay
Cato the Elder, a Roman senator and historian, once remarked: “Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.” For many centuries, retirees have been aware of this unfortunate…
