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Dan Rather | Our Test Is Now
Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page
Rather writes: “As we approach the Fourth of July, my mind bounces between our uncertain present and the challenges of the past.”
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Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page
Rather writes: “As we approach the Fourth of July, my mind bounces between our uncertain present and the challenges of the past.”
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). (photo: Kent Nishimura / LA Times)
Maxine Waters Is Done With 'Nice Guy Politics'
Sylvan Lane, The Hill
Lane writes: “From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message. She’s just not always the best messenger.”
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Sylvan Lane, The Hill
Lane writes: “From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message. She’s just not always the best messenger.”
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First-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who upset veteran Representative Joe Crowley in a Democratic congressional primary. (photo: M. Stan Reaves/REX/Shutterstock/M. Stan Reaves/REX/Shutterstock)
Republicans Are Terrified of What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Started
Jay Willis, GQ
Willis writes: “It took the right-wing pundit class all of four days to decide how it planned to attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Bronx native who won her New York City congressional district's Democratic primary on the strength of some really, really good policy ideas.”
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Jay Willis, GQ
Willis writes: “It took the right-wing pundit class all of four days to decide how it planned to attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Bronx native who won her New York City congressional district's Democratic primary on the strength of some really, really good policy ideas.”
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Brett Talley stands in Holy Rood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., in 2014. (photo: M. Stan Reaves/REX/Shutterstock)
KKK Defender Whose Judicial Nomination Went Down in Flames Is a Federal Prosecutor Now
Paul Blest, Splinter
Blest writes: “Last year, Brett Talley withdrew his name for a nomination to the federal bench after it was discovered that he operated a prolific account on a message board where, among other things, he defended the Ku Klux Klan and joked about statutory rape.”
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Paul Blest, Splinter
Blest writes: “Last year, Brett Talley withdrew his name for a nomination to the federal bench after it was discovered that he operated a prolific account on a message board where, among other things, he defended the Ku Klux Klan and joked about statutory rape.”
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Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder. (photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Michigan Judge Rules Kids Don't Have a Fundamental Right to Literacy
Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press
Higgins writes: “Few could dispute the importance of literacy. But children have no fundamental right to learn to read and write, according to a federal judge whose ruling in a closely watched lawsuit Friday left some disheartened and others raising questions.”
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Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press
Higgins writes: “Few could dispute the importance of literacy. But children have no fundamental right to learn to read and write, according to a federal judge whose ruling in a closely watched lawsuit Friday left some disheartened and others raising questions.”
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Indian traders hold up anti-Walmart signs during a protest in New Delhi. (photo: CNN)
'Walmart Go Back': Traders Protest US Capitalist Takeover of Indian Retailer Flipkart
teleSUR
Excerpt: “Hundred of traders across 500 cities in India took to streets to protest Walmart's US$16 billion majority stake acquisition of Indian retailer Flipkart, an online store, offering similar services as the United States online giant Amazon.”
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teleSUR
Excerpt: “Hundred of traders across 500 cities in India took to streets to protest Walmart's US$16 billion majority stake acquisition of Indian retailer Flipkart, an online store, offering similar services as the United States online giant Amazon.”
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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin is the latest public official to sue a group of major oil companies. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Rhode Island Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change, First State to Do So
Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News
Kusnetz writes: “Rhode Island on Monday became the first state to sue oil companies over the effects of climate change, filing a complaint seeking damages for the costs associated with protecting the state from rising seas and severe weather.”
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Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News
Kusnetz writes: “Rhode Island on Monday became the first state to sue oil companies over the effects of climate change, filing a complaint seeking damages for the costs associated with protecting the state from rising seas and severe weather.”
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