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Joseph Stiglitz | The American Economy Is Rigged
Joseph Stiglitz, Scientific American
Stiglitz writes: "By most accounts, the U.S. has the highest level of economic inequality among developed countries. It has the world's greatest per capita health expenditures yet the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries."
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Joseph Stiglitz, Scientific American
Stiglitz writes: "By most accounts, the U.S. has the highest level of economic inequality among developed countries. It has the world's greatest per capita health expenditures yet the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries."
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Seniors in Jefferson County post with Black Voters Matter bus. (photo: Kira Lerner)
"This Is Voter Suppression": Black Seniors in Georgia Ordered Off of Bus Taking Them to Vote
P.R. Lockhart, Vox
Lockhart writes: "As early voting began Monday in Georgia, a group of black senior citizens gathered for a voter outreach event at Jefferson County's Leisure Center. Members of Black Voters Matter, one of the groups behind the event, offered to drive the group of about 40 seniors to the polls."
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P.R. Lockhart, Vox
Lockhart writes: "As early voting began Monday in Georgia, a group of black senior citizens gathered for a voter outreach event at Jefferson County's Leisure Center. Members of Black Voters Matter, one of the groups behind the event, offered to drive the group of about 40 seniors to the polls."
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Democrats Say GOP Planning Social Security, Medicare Cuts to Offset Budget Deficit
Erica Werner, Damian Paletta and David Weigel, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Democrats issued warnings Wednesday about the peril Republicans pose to Medicare and Social Security, accusing the GOP of plotting to cut critical safety net programs to close a budget deficit of their own making."
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Erica Werner, Damian Paletta and David Weigel, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Democrats issued warnings Wednesday about the peril Republicans pose to Medicare and Social Security, accusing the GOP of plotting to cut critical safety net programs to close a budget deficit of their own making."
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Chicago police. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty)
Excerpt: "Video footage released on Tuesday by a civil rights group shows an off-duty Chicago police officer shooting an unarmed, autistic man during an incident initially described as an armed confrontation."
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New York Magazine's The Cut featuring women discussing power and powerlessness. (photo: Amanda Demme)
Hanna Rosin | Women and Power
Hanna Rosin, The Cut
Rosin writes: "I know many neurotic men, and insecure men, but I can't think of a single one who, when presented with the glass slipper, wouldn't have a ready story for himself about why, despite all his doubts, it really is a good fit. I suppose the obvious explanation for our ambivalence is that we are so harshly punished for behaving any other way."
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Hanna Rosin, The Cut
Rosin writes: "I know many neurotic men, and insecure men, but I can't think of a single one who, when presented with the glass slipper, wouldn't have a ready story for himself about why, despite all his doubts, it really is a good fit. I suppose the obvious explanation for our ambivalence is that we are so harshly punished for behaving any other way."
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Honduran migrants walk toward the United States in Chiquimula, Guatemala, on Wednesday. A migrant caravan set out on Oct. 13 from the impoverished, violence-plagued country and was headed north on the long journey through Guatemala and Mexico to the U.S. border. (photo: Orlando Estrada/Getty)
Mexican Government Sends Federal Police to Intercept Caravan of US-Bound Migrants
David Agren, USA Today
Agren writes: "The government of Mexico dispatched two 727 Boeing planes filled with federal police officers to its southern border with Guatemala on Wednesday to intercept a caravan of Central American migrants who are trying to reach the U.S. border."
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David Agren, USA Today
Agren writes: "The government of Mexico dispatched two 727 Boeing planes filled with federal police officers to its southern border with Guatemala on Wednesday to intercept a caravan of Central American migrants who are trying to reach the U.S. border."
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Wastewater disposal is becoming a bigger problem for oil and gas drillers. A rule of thumb is that for every barrel of oil, four or five barrels of wastewater are produced. (photo: Brittany Solace/Bloomberg)
EPA Weighs Allowing Oil Companies to Pump Wastewater Into Rivers, Streams
James Osborne, The Houston Chronicle
Osborne writes: "But with concern growing that the underlying geology in the Permian Basin and other shale plays are reaching capacity for disposal wells, the Trump administration is examining whether to adjust decades-old federal clean water regulations to allow drillers to discharge wastewater directly into rivers and streams from which communities draw their water supplies."
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James Osborne, The Houston Chronicle
Osborne writes: "But with concern growing that the underlying geology in the Permian Basin and other shale plays are reaching capacity for disposal wells, the Trump administration is examining whether to adjust decades-old federal clean water regulations to allow drillers to discharge wastewater directly into rivers and streams from which communities draw their water supplies."
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