All Views Articles for 2019-03-14

Thursday, March 14, 2019
Leo Gerard
Of Course College Admissions Rigged for the Rich. The Whole Economic System Is
The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg
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Ashley Bennett (center left) and other People’s Action leaders at the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in December, 2018. (Photo credit: People’s Action) Ashley Bennett
We Will Not Rest Until Housing Justice Is Done
For too long, big banks and the one percent have built fortunes on the backs of low-income tenants
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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette Stages a Comeback on Capitol Hill
In this exclusive interview, the 18 th century queen shares her views on the popular revival of her ‘let them eat cake’ attitude among top Trump administration officials.
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Hardeman sued Monsanto (now owned by Bayer), alleging that his longtime use of Roundup weedkiller caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer.(Photo: Screenshot) Julie Wilson
Judge in Second Roundup Cancer Trial Worked for Firm that Defended Monsanto
The judge worked for the firm when Monsanto was engulfed in an all-out legal battle over rBGH, a genetically engineered drug developed by Monsanto
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“Some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.” (Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images) Frida Berrigan
A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change
Parenting the climate-change generation or will they parent us?
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It’s something we’re taught at an early age — to be nice and polite as all young girls should be, reinforcing gender norms that began at this country’s inception. (Photo: Shutterstock) Tracey L. Rogers
Stop Making Women Apologize
Women are socialized from a young age to say "sorry" for simply occupying space. This Women's History Month, I say no more
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The GOP’s initial line of attack won’t last long beyond the corridors of the White House and Fox News. (Image: Hero Images) Andrew Cohen
When a Bill to Revive Democracy Is Called an Ode to Socialism
The Republican response to the For the People Act is ultimately about white supremacy, argues Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen
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The big Trump Republican tax cut is already breaking the bank. It will cost us 1.9 trillion dollars over the next decade. Let me repeat that: 1.9 trillion dollars. (Photo: @srbija_eu/Twitter) Robert Reich
The Huge GOP Lie About the Deficit
It’s not social spending that’s causing the federal deficit to soar, it’s Republican tax cuts
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This assault on our democracy must end. (Photo: Shutterstock) John Sarbanes, Michael Brune
To Clean Up the Planet, Clean Up Washington
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy—and our planet
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The headsets, known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, are a way to “increase lethality” when the military engages the enemy. (Photo: Penn Libraries-TRL/flickr/cc) Robert C. Koehler
Artificial Morality
“We are a global coalition of Microsoft workers, and we refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression."
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The main attraction of a national popular vote system is that it would change the way that presidential campaigns are conducted—moving them onto more of a national stage—and emphasize that every vote counted, no matter where it was cast. (Photo: AP) Steven Rosenfeld
Good-Bye Electoral College? Popular Vote Movement Gaining Steam
It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections
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The industry that tops the lists for US campaign contributions and lobbying dollars is aggressively countering the criticism with a classic tactic: a shell game designed to distract our attention elsewhere.(Photo: TaxRebate.org.uk/Flickr/cc) Fran Quigley
Beating the Big Pharma Shell Game
Momentum is growing for a long-overdue fix to the broken medicines system and big pharma is fighting back
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