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All Views Articles for 2017-04-12

Wednesday, April 12, 2017
	Zenobia Jeffries What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know A recent study predicts that in the next five years, more than one-third of Americans will not be able to afford their water. Read more
	Robert Reich Update for Trump Voters 1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 2. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s... Read more
	Michael Winship Donald Trump’s ‘Measured Response’ Attempts to give logic and coherence to the Trump administration's hastily revised Syrian policy can't hide the hollowness at its core. Read more
	Jill Richardson Trump’s Budget: Feeding One Kid, Starving the Family Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An... Read more
	Mark Weisbrot Julian Assange is A Political Prisoner Who Has Exposed Government Crimes and Atrocities Julian Assange is a political prisoner. He has never been charged with a crime. Everyone who recognizes his name should know this, and if they don’t it is only because the largest media outlets have... Read more
	Ben Lilliston When Climate Change Was Part of the Farm Bill Last month, Congress held initial hearings to inform the 2018 Farm Bill. Agriculture Committee members heard about the struggling farm economy, crop insurance and rural development. One issue that... Read more
	Dave Johnson Deplaning of United Passenger Shows Why We Need Corporate Regulation In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. Apparently, that isn’t so much the way it is anymore. The United States... Read more
	Maya Berry The First Amendment Looks Especially Beautiful in Arabic In 2006, a human rights advocate, who is a friend, was prevented from boarding his flight from New York to California because of Arabic . Yes, Arabic. The language spoken by more than 400 million... Read more
	Donna Smith Standing for Peace Puts a Target on Tulsi Our memories can be so fleeting—especially as the intense emotions and horror felt about seeing images from war-torn Syria drive blind acceptance of the most recent chemical attacks and subsequent U... Read more
	Adam Johnson Out of 46 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack. In other words, 83... Read more
	Marjorie Cohn Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws As the U.S. mainstream media hails President Trump’s missile strike on Syria, there has been almost no attention to either the truth about its justification or the myriad of laws violated in its execution Read more
	Ralph Nader The Savings and Stability of Public Banking As a society obsessed by money, we pay a gigantic price for not educating high school and college students about money and banking. The ways of the giant global banks – both commercial and investment... Read more