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News & Views | Monday, June 18, 2018
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Mark Father's Day With Vigil at Facility for Migrant Children Torn From Parents by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As families across the United States celebrated Father's Day on Sunday, immigrants and advocates held a vigil at the Ursula Border Patrol Processing Center in South McAllen, Texas to express support for children who were torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the Southern border and are now being held in the facility. |
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Outrage After White House Vows New CFPB Nominee Will Continue Mulvaney's Efforts to Gut Agency by Jessica Corbett, staff writer After the White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump will nominate Kathy Kraninger to take over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), critics blasted her as "unqualified" and warned that if confirmed, she will likely continue Acting Director Mick Mulvaney's efforts to defang the agency. |
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Praise for Progressive 'Torchbearer' Ocasio-Cortez's Takedown of 'Career Politician' Crowley by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Progressives praised U.S. House primary candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—"a torchbearer for the progressive movement"—for her performance Friday night in a debate against Rep. Joe Crowley, a powerful player in the Democratic Party's establishment and longtime representative for New York's 14th District. |
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Coalition Ignores Famine Warnings and Continues Assault on Yemen as Critics Question US Complicity by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Ignoring international aid groups' warnings that an attack on the Yemeni city of Hodeida, which is held by Houthi rebels, could exacerbate hunger in an impoverished and war-torn nation already on the brink of famine, Saudi-led U.S.-backed coalition forces continued a sweeping assault on the Red Sea port city Saturday, reportedly seizing control of an airport. |
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This Father's Day, Let's Be Worthy of Our Children by Steven Singer A country that doesn't respect the rights of parents—even if those parents aren't documented U.S. citizens—has no right to pretend it values fatherhood or motherhood. |
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We Should Be Excited About the Bottom-Up Wins in Virginia's Primaries by Laura Flanders A certain handshake in Singapore dominated the news June 12, so you might have missed Virginia's Democratic primaries. Call me crazy, but I put more faith in Anthony Flaccavento and Leslie Cockburn than in any part of that Singapore handshake. |
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"They're Different From Us": The Profiteers of Prejudice by Roy Eidelson When the 1% encourage prejudice and discrimination, they're prioritizing the preservation of their tremendous material advantages over the creation of a more equal and more decent society |
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Does the Burns/Novick Vietnam Documentary Deserve an Emmy? by Doug Rawlings The war was never "begun in good faith." It was never just a "mistake." It was, from the beginning and throughout, a morally depraved undertaking. |
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I've Worked for Tips for Most of My Life. It's Time to Pay Us the Minimum Wage by Kate Davidson Initiative 77 could help us. I've seen it first-hand. So, me? I'm voting yes. |
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Would God Really Snatch a Suckling Baby From Its Mother's Breast? by Leonard Pitts Jr. Trump's evil border policy is a look-the-other-way, not-my-fault species of moral putrefaction brought to you by the most ostentatiously Christian political party in one of the most noisily Christian nations on Earth. |
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