Lawmaker Wants Teachers Punished for Lessons Contradicting Students’ Religion
An Oklahoma state lawmaker is proposing a new bill that could levy fines on teachers whose lessons promote positions that are in opposition to a student’s religious beliefs. Senate Bill 1470 is sponsored by state Sen. Rob Standrige (R), who describes himself as having been “raised with strong Christian values.” The bill would allow parents […]
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New York Amazon Workers File to Unionize Just Before Election Rerun in Bessemer
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York filed for a union election Wednesday. This marked the second warehouse to file for unionization in the area. According to Vice’s Lauren Kaori Gurley, roughly 1,500 people work at LDJ5, an Amazon sorting center. If the filing is accepted by the National Labor Relations Board, […]
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Teachers Raise Alarm Over COVID Testing Delays
Even though the United States is in its third school year following the COVID-19 outbreak, the latest surge seems to have caught many districts by surprise. Schools across the country are reporting the highest number of positive cases since the outbreak. During the first week after the winter break, Boston Public Schools (BPS) reported1,787 positive […]
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US Militarism Is a Cause of Tension in Eastern Europe, Not a Solution
The rising tensions between Ukraine, Russia, the United States and other NATO countries — and the resulting discourse in U.S. media — show that American leaders love an international crisis. In a crisis, the American public is often discouraged from asking questions — and when they do, militarism is usually the answer. Despite the fact […]
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Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
As protesters march in front the White House in Washington, D.C., May 31, 2020, a police officer charges forward.Samuel Corum / AFP via Getty Images “When you have a power that is designed to be unaccountable and has been unaccountable for so damn long, the reforms that stick to it just make it stronger and […]
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Warren Calls on Biden to End Trump-Era Plan Aimed at Privatizing Medicare
Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined physicians and dozens of her House Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden administration to immediately halt Medicare Direct Contracting, a Trump-era pilot that could result in complete privatization of the cherished public healthcare program by decade’s end. “It is completely baffling to me that the Biden administration wants to give […]
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Efforts to Limit Drug Prices Are Stalled — and Pharma Is Seizing an Opening
Dozens of vulnerable House Democrats are worried that the party’s stalled spending negotiations with Joe Manchin will cost them seats in the midterms — and hand Congress to the Republicans Democrats had planned to include legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, fulfilling a campaign promise that helped them win control of the House in […]
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Democrats Are So Fed Up With Kyrsten Sinema They Are Funding a Primary Challenge
Talk of a primary challenge to unseat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is ramping up in the wake of the Arizona Democrat’s decision to protect the filibuster at the cost of passing voting rights legislation. The weekend will be James CarvilleOne of the top strategists in Democratic Party strategy-making claimed that Sinema would lose to a challenge […]
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War in Ukraine Could Be Humanitarian Catastrophe for Millions in the Region
Image Credit: Norwegian Refugee Council As tensions rise between Russia, and NATOOver a possible invasion of Ukraine, approximately 2 million people in eastern Ukraine could be at risk of massive displacement or violence if the conflict escalates. We speak with the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Jan Egeland, who is on the ground in Ukraine and says […]
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How America Is Doing 1 Year Into Biden’s Presidency
President Joe Biden is in office for less than a year. Rep. Bob Good, R.Va., believes the nation would be more successful without him. If Biden “went home, back to Delaware to his beach house … and never came out, the country would be much better off,” Good says. “Everything he’s done has been harmful […]
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