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Commentary: A system that rewards fights and punishes solutions
The room where it happened: A decade after Indiana’s 2011 redistricting, those on the inside still aren’t talking
IN Lawmakers Add Barriers to Public-Health Orders in Emergencie
IN Researchers Track COVID Vaccine Uptake, Online Misinformation
Indiana AG Rokita facing scrutiny for ties to health benefits firm
Indiana Voting-Rights Group Tackles Redistricting Reform
Indiana ranked fourth most miserable state in America
Indiana: GOP Targets Consumer Solar & Wind Energy Market
Internal report cites HUD for lead poisoning in East Chicago, Ind., children. More could be at risk.
Postsecondary Attainment: Where Indiana Stands and Needs to Go
Report Uncovers Disproportionate Energy Cost Burdens
Report: Steel Tariffs Key for Economic Recovery
Unemployment benefits will soon be ending amid mixed reactions
Groups Say Federal Legislation Needed to Open Up IN Redistricting Process
Help is Available for IN Students Facing Food Insecurity
Indiana students demand action on climate change. Lawmakers respond with hard 'no.'
MSNBC Host challenges Republican lying Senator
Abandoned Indianapolis School Reclaimed
And…Todd Rokita Again
Holcomb sizes up COVID surge … and AG Todd Rokita fanning ‘flames of confusion’
Hoosier Households Urged to Apply for Heating Assistance
Indiana Supreme Court launches eviction diversion program
Mike Braun's traveling swamp
Mitch Daniels: Due Diligence?
Overdose Prevention Kits Coming to Indiana Jails, Hospitals
Program Aims to Build Pipelines to Executive Positions for Women, Minorities
Redistricting Over, IN Voting Rights Group Looks to the Future
Report: Remove Coal Ash to Clean Up Toxic Pollution of IN Groundwater
School Counselor: Indiana Needs More Mental-Health Professionals
Support Needed for Young People Aging Out of Foster Care
Attorney general’s efforts to strike HEA 1123 lawsuit continue
Groups Work to Support Hoosiers as State Cuts Federal Jobless Benefits
As GOP attacks IU’s vaccine requirement, how Mitch Daniels and Purdue thread the needle
Coalition Launches to Push Back Against Predatory Lending
Commentary: Guns, history and fiction
Commentary: Legislators can’t truly represent the people if they don’t know the people
Commentary: Protect the governor’s emergency power
Exploring Future of Indianapolis' Middle Class
For LGBTQ Hoosiers, Equality Act Would End Patchwork of Protections
From Hudnut And Lugar To…Pathetic
IBLC hosts call-to-action days demanding change
In South Bend, debate over racial gerrymandering
Indiana county rejects $3 million health grant after COVID-19 conspiracy theories sway council vote
AG Rokita keeping private sector job while in elected office
Local
EDITORIAL: How Purdue's trustees operate in secret
Going for Gold at the Indiana Veterans Home
Groups Urge Indiana to Expunge Evictions Filed During Pandemic
MatchBOX Promotes Creative Thinking for Professionals
Purdue Greek Life Responds to Reports of Increased Sexual Assault
Purdue to sell WBAA radio
The Plan for ARPA Funds
WEST LAFAYETTE COUNCIL TARGETS MAYOR’S VETO OF FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE BAN FOR POLICE
West Side Will Consider Restrictions on Conversion Therapy for Minors
'Not revisiting it would be a mistake'
Commentary: Purdue Senates govern Purdue’s curricula, not the Trustees
All the Things about ‘All The Things Lafayette’
Anti-'indoctrination' meeting canceled after pushback
Commercial flights at Purdue Airport, a semiconductor hub at heart of Greater Lafayette regional
Graduate student rent relief denied by business office
May 2021 Civics literacy through shared governance
Rolls-Royce expanding research footprint at Purdue University
The Road to the Next Superintendent
Tippecanoe County Council: Financial Stewards for the County
Politics
Corporate Media Want Us to Think Biden “Lost” to Progressives on Infrastructure
Why do the media keep saying this election was a loss for Democrats? It wasn’t
$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’
An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy
Are the Motives of War Profiteers Driving Us to the Brink of a New Cold War?
As Build Back Better Is Gutted, Defense Act Is Deemed a “Must-Pass” Bill
Big Panic For a Democracy That Never Was
GOP 'Millionaires Caucus' Stands to Benefit From Obstructing Tax Hikes on the Rich
How Tucker Carlson Became the Voice for White Grievance
January 21, 2022 - Letters from an American
Leaked Chats Reveal Evidence of Hate Crimes by U.S. Fascists
Merrick Garland Unveils Plan B for Protecting Voting Rights
Republican voters don't actually "believe" the Big Lie about January 6 — they're in on the con
Senate education committee hears conflicting testimony over who should control school curriculum
Supreme Court Rules for Death by Covid
The Biggest, Most Dangerous Divide in Politics
The Fight for Voting Rights Won’t End
The Taliban Surrendered in 2001
Why We Need To Spend Four Trillion Dollars by David Brooks (!!!!!!)
‘They Do Not Tell Both Sides of the Inflation Story’
LIES AND WAR: From Truman to Rumsfeld and Beyond
Critical Race Theory
How Far Will the GOP Go to Steal the 2022 Election?
The Corporate Sponsors of Voter Suppression
125 Democrats Say Military Aid to Israel Shouldn’t Depend on Human Rights Record
Bills Targeting Local Officials Could Allow GOP to Overturn Election Results
Boebert, Gosar and Brooks Aided Capitol Attackers, Jayapal Says in Letters
Can Peak Gerrymandering by GOP be Challenged by Progressives?
City And State
Commentary: What a difference a word makes
DEEP STRUCTURES, HATE, AND VIOLENCE: The Long Road to Societal Decay (and Renovation)
How The NRA Helped Foment An Armed Insurrection At The Capitol
How the Build Back Better Act Would Alleviate Inflation and Drive Sustained Prosperity
Leading money-in-politics data nonprofits merge to form OpenSecrets, a state-of-the-art democratic accountability organization
Money Money Money…
ON DEMOCRACY: “CAN WE TALK”
Republicans Are Vocally Opposed to Democracy, From Texas to Myanmar
Sanders Is Making Excellent Use of His Power as Budget Committee Chair
Santa Claus Is About To Drop a Bomb On Biden
The Dark Money Influencing Senator Manchin’s Right-Wing Agenda
The GOP And QAnon
The rise of domestic extremism in America
Time To Rethink Federalism
Trump Tried A Coup In Plain Sight — And Has, So Far, Gotten Away With It
Welcome to the last years of the American Century: It's been an unmitigated disaster
International
Rebuild the Peace Movement Now! Stop the Violence! Stop the Intervention!
Syria
The Bombs of April: The Media Are Giddy for Airstrikes
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
US Military Should Get Out of the Middle East
Amidst Pandemic, Dramatic Increases in Economic Inequality, the Rise of Racism, and Climate Disaster, the Danger of War Increases
Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry’s for Boycott in Occupied Palestinian Territory
The Growing Movement to End U.S. Complicity in Colombia's Human Rights Abuses
‘The Modis, the Trumps, the Bolsonaros Come Out of the Wreckage of Neoliberal Policy’
'Palestinian Lives Matter,' Declares Bernie Sanders in NYT Op-ed
As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State
At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror
Biden Should Make Normalizing Relations With Cuba "A Priority"
FOREIGN POLICY: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Israel Isn’t Signing ‘Peace’ Deals
Israel’s War Against Press Turns More Literal
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
Life Under Occupation: The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict
States Have No Inherent ‘Right to Exist’—but It’s a Media Fixation on Israel/Palestine
Taking a More Realistic View of Cuba
The Three Apartheids of Our Times (Money, Medicine, Food): The Sixth Newsletter (2021). February 11, 202
The Venezuelan microcosm: A U.S. propaganda apparatus at work (Black Agenda Report interviews coauthors of forthcoming book, “Extraordinary Threat”)
The best-case scenario in Ukraine
Trump’s Cuban Policy as a Metaphor for US Politics
U.S. Economic Sanctions on Cuba in the context of the Pandemic COVID-19
Education
Dictating Civics: How the Purdue Civics Literacy Requirement Was Imposed by Trustees and Administrators
National hypersonic ground test facility to be built in Purdue Aerospace District
'Sounds Like Fascism': DeSantis Signs Law to Collect Political Views of Professors
A choice for the University of Florida: Academic freedom or government stooge | Editorial
Bradley-Funded Attacks on Schools Are Really an Assault on American Democracy
Colleges Still Obsess Over National Rankings. For Proof, Look at Their Strategic Plans.
In win for Indiana teachers unions, federal judge temporarily blocks new state law
Koch Network Infiltration of Public Schools 'Harms Students, Teachers, and Our Democracy': Report
Letter to the editor: 'Ultimate insider' has hope in English department's 'dark time'
Letter to the editor: Why our English department deserves more respect
RETHINKING THE UNIVERSITY IN AN AGE OF EDUCATIONAL CRISIS: LOOKING BACK AND MOVING FORWARD
Submitted Opinion Piece: Koonin's inclusion in the Presidential Lecture series 'isn't courageous;' It feeds public disinformation
Tennessee Rejects “Moms for Liberty” Complaint Over Lessons on MLK
The Rise of the UniverCity
The Secret Corporate Memo Behind Today's Guerilla War on Campus Progressives
UNIVERSITIES, FOREVER WARS, AND THE NEW COLD WAR
UPDATE: CLA Dean blames English department for budgeting problems
Valparaiso University denies wrongdoing but will close Confucius Institute
Where are all the women?
‘A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can’
'On our own terms': How scholars of color are correcting the narrative of national tragedies
A Century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Oklahoma is Locked in a Battle over how to Talk about it
A Pro-Israel Lawyer Is Weaponizing Public Records Law Against Palestinian Activists
ACLU of Indiana Files First Amendment Challenge to Firing of Porter County Educator
As states cut budgets, racial funding gaps between districts could widen
Critical Race Theory
Discovery Park District on Purdue campus attracting those who can live, work from anywhere
Doctors: Mask Up in Schools, Get Vaccine to Protect Hoosier Kids
Faculty Compensation Survey Results
Feb. 24, 1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Case Wins Free Speech Rights for Students
Fewer Student-Aid Applications Could Mean Less College Enrollment
Guest Blog: Where Does the Bizarre Hysteria About ‘Critical Race Theory’ Come From? Follow the Money!
Headline: Exposing the Motive for the Sudden Wave of Attacks on Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
Higher Education and Economic and Political Elites: The Harvard Mode
If the Fed Can Bail Out Wall Street, It Can Rescue Public Education
In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can’t Pretend to Be Apolitical
Lafayette school trustee: Who benefits from school choice?
Lafayette school trustee: Who benefits from school choice?
Pandemic Could Worsen Educational Inequity for Indiana Women
Purdue responds to Daniels' letter
Some Newark schools face laptop shortages, leaving families to find their own devices
THE CONTRADICTIONS FACING 21St CENTURY HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CASE OF “CIVIC LITERACY” AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY
THOUGHTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION: 2021
Teachers Singled Out in Indiana Union Membership Bil
The Appalling Indiana Statehouse…
The Dark History of School Choice
The Invisible Hazard Afflicting Thousands of Schools
Underrepresentation of high-achieving students of color in gifted programs
Universities, we have a problem we are afraid to speak of
Where next for local teacher pay, after it hits new state $40K minimum?
Zionist Groups in US Operate Campaigns to Quash Palestine Solidarity on Campus
‘A Watershed Moment’ for Shared Governance
“Campus Reform” Is Funneling Koch Money to Groom Right-Wing “Journalists”
Labor
Burrito economics: Republican claims about price rises are so much hot air
24 hours in the life of American workers
‘We Need to Stop Taking Employers’ Viewpoint as Gospel’
After Hundreds of Meatpacking Workers Died From COVID-19, Congress Wants Answers
Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union Drive
Amazon “Broke the Law”: Union Seeks New Election After Alabama Warehouse Organizing Drive Fails
Amazon’s Anti-Union Bullying Shows Why We Need the PRO Act
Arconic workers walk the picket line
CWA: Time to Stop Rewarding Contractors That Send Good Jobs Overseas
Crediting Xenophobia—Rather Than Organizing—With Raising Workers’ Wages
Despite Defeat, Sanders Calls Those Behind Amazon Union Drive an 'Inspiration to Workers' Nationwide
In What Universe Is a $15 Wage “Too High”? Joe Manchin’s.
Judge Orders T-Mobile to Disband Illegal Workplace Organization
Latinx Farmworkers Risking Their Lives During COVID Struggle to Access Vaccines
Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic end
New Zealand Law Granting Paid Leave for Miscarriage Sparks Organizing in US
Not Far From Bessemer, Over a Thousand Alabama Coal Miners Are on Strike
Pensacola State College faculty demand protection
Reclaiming Paul Robeson in the Time of COVID-19
Republicans Won Blue-Collar Votes. They’re Not Offering Much in Return.
The Shocking Reality of a Future of Shrinking Jobs
Washington, DC Lawsuit Claims Amazon Violates Antitrust Laws by Inflating Prices
Workers and Communities vs Amazon
‘Proposition 22 Is a Backlash to Victories Workers Have Had’
At a Massive Union Rally, the Promise of a Better South
"We Are Emptying Out Their Shelves": Nabisco Workers’ 5-Week Strike Won by Shutting Down Business as Usual
A Landmark Win for Domestic Workers Lurks in the Reconciliation Bill
A Unionization Wave Is Reshaping Museums and Cultural Institutions Across the US
Alabama Amazon Workers May Get Another Crack at a Union
Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965
At Least 27 Million US Workers Can’t Afford All the Basic Necessities of Life
Biden Promised a Workplace Safety Rule. Industry Got Him to Issue a Narrow One.
Facing wage theft? Here’s what you should know.
Poverty Is A Policy Choice
Rare Unionizing Opportunity in Big Box and Retail Chains
Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize in a contentious vote.
Student Workers of Columbia Are Running the Biggest Ongoing U.S. Labor Strike
The Climate Crisis Is Coming for Undocumented Farmworkers First
Union Wins Election at a Second Buffalo-Area Starbucks
Workers Deserved Bernie’s Build Back Better, But They’ll Likely Get Manchin’s
Amid Labor Shortage and Supply Chain Disruption, Workers Have Historic Leverage
Museum Workers Are Joining the Growing Labor Movement
November 5, 2021
Justice
Hundreds 'March for Life' as Indiana lawmakers hold off on major abortion legislation
INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN D.G. KELLEY (edited transcript)
BOOKS / Progressive Giants : Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden
By Taxing the Pandemic Profits of Billionaires, We Could Vaccinate Everyone on Earth
Former Student Sues Westfield Washington Schools after Relentless Racist Abuse
Judge Tied to Chevron Sends Lawyer Who Sued Oil Giant to Prison for 6 Months
Kyle Rittenhouse, white supremacy, and the privilege of self-defense
More Than 46,000 US Children Have Lost at Least One Parent to COVID
More inmates sue Miami Correctional for 'horrific' conditions
Now evangelicals want to depict "social justice" as un-Christian: I hope God will forgive them
Our massively unfair tax system: How do the ultra-rich get away with it?
The "soft" overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go
Three Children Attacked a Black Woman. A Sheriff’s Deputy Arrived — and Beat Her More.
What’s “in the Damn Bill” for Families? Bernie Sanders Wants You to Know.
When Police Dogs Attack: Why Some K-9 Units Are Under Fire for Biting Suspects
“Feel-Good” News Story or Poverty Propaganda?
Free Speech
800,000 Low-Income Households May Have Had Electricity Disconnected Amid COVID
A Republican's damning admission offers a dark preview of the future
America's hardest places to grow up
CMUs: The Federal Prison System’s Experiment in Group Segregation
COVID Relief Packages Dramatically Reduced Poverty. They Should Be Permanent.
Communities of Restoration
Corporate America scrambles to get behind voting rights
Drilling Down on Systemic Racism in Sports
FBI Has Found No Evidence of Antifa Involvement in Capitol Attack, Says Director
First on Axios: Baltimore's powerful new tool to fight illegal guns
Florida Judge Exposes the Chaotic Nightmare Facing Felons Who Want to Register to Vote
GOP Lawyer Admits to SCOTUS That Voting Rights Disadvantage Republican Party
Gun manufacturers quietly target young boys using social media
How Do You Spell Despicable?
New Report Calls on the Biden Administration to Put an End to Close-to-Slavery Conditions of the H-2A Guest Worker Program
New Study: Militarizing the Police Doesn’t Reduce Crime
November 3, 2021
Predatory Banks at Walmarts Made Over 100 Percent of Profits From Overdraft Fees
Report Finds Over 100 Rebellions in Jails and Prisons Over COVID Conditions
Rosie Could Be a Riveter Only Because of a Care Economy. Where Is Ours?
Supreme Court rules kids can be thrown away
The Pandemic Could Set Women's Pay Back a Generation
The school to prison pipeline, explained
They Aren’t Even Pretending Anymore
US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Coopting Their Political Practices
US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults
f the Biden Administration Is Serious About Protecting Voting Rights, Here's What It Should Do Immediately
‘Raising the Minimum Wage Has Direct Implications for Black Families’
“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records
“New Group Seeks Accountability from Lafayette Police Department”
Environment
Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Yank Line 3 Oil Pipeline Permits
Degrowth Policies Cannot Avert Climate Crisis. We Need a Green New Deal.
Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly
Opinion: This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general
Over 800 Water Protectors Have Been Arrested Since Line 3 Pipeline Was Approved
The Myth of the Managed Wildfire: How US Forest Service Policies Perpetuate Deadly Wildfires
There Is Little Doubt the Climate Crisis Is Here—Now What Do We Do About It?
Indiana Republicans join the new Conservative Climate Caucus. Here's what that means
Applause for Perseverance Ignores Plutonium Bullet We Dodged
As climate change disrupts supply chains, American life is poised to change drastically
Biden May Approve Logging an Old-Growth Forest, Heightening Climate Risks
Democratic Leaders Are Finger-Wagging Over the IPCC Report. They Should Look To Themselves.
EPA Considers Gutting Regulations on Lead Contamination
Feeding the World Better: WithoutFactory Farms:
If We Don’t Act Now, the Entire US Could Become a “Cancer Alley”
New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab
Ocasio-Cortez says we need World War II-scale action on climate. Here’s what that looks like.
Opinion: Mitch Daniels’ interview of Steve Koonin
State Sells Public Forest Timber for a Song
The Coal Plant Next Door
Media
'Trump Became President' by Bombing Syria
A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms
As US Broils and Europe Floods, Media Dismiss EU Climate Plan as ‘Ambitious’
Beijing’s Movie War Propaganda—and Washington’s
Cherry-Picking Polls to Hide Public Support for Biden’s Spending Plan
Corporate Media Harms Not Only Through Omission, But Also by Distortion
How Buffalo News Helped Keep a Socialist out of City Hall
Jen Psaki Shocks FOX News Hack Peter Doocy with Trump's Deadly Record of COVID Mismanagement
Media messes up coverage of voting rights, blames Biden for GOP's racism
New era for local journalism
Politico’s Staff Must Toe New Owner’s Line—Including Endorsing Israel
Saab Case Shows Western Media’s Casual Acceptance of US Atrocities
TV Reports on Manchin and Sinema Leave Out Their Financial Conflicts
The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez
What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town
When this hedge fund buys local newspapers, democracy suffers
‘The Commercial System Isn’t Providing the Local News We Need’
Exposing the “‘pink slime’ journalism” of Journatic
Fears for future of American journalism as hedge funds flex power
How we can save local news
POLITICAL NEWS IS A COMMODITY: WHAT SELLS IS LEGITIMATE
WaPo Obscures Republican Role in Killing Equal Pay
We are pioneering a new model for web journalism.
Jeff Bezos’ Fake News in the Newspaper He Really Owns
Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model
'Sometimes to Tell the Truth, You Have to Take a Stand'
A New Book Calls For Fundamental Media Reform — And The Pandemic May Give Those Ideas A Boost
A year of change threatens the future of journalism
AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of ‘Objectivity’
CHALLENGING IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY: TAKING ON THE MEDIA
Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt
Election 2020
GANNETT CHAIN OWNS 250 NEWSPAPERS (INCLUDING THE JOURNAL AND COURIER) AND SHAPES POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
How the media’s ‘cancel culture’ debate obscures direct threats to First Amendment
It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse
Margaret Sullivan has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news
Media Praise ‘Mavericks’ for Blocking Aid to American People
NPR Star Audie Cornish Says She's Joining 'The Great Resignation'
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela’s Cuban Doctors
Power Analysis Failure
Reporters’ Alert: Launching a New Website
Rumsfeld Remembered as ‘Complex,’ ‘Energetic’—Not as Killer of Multitudes
Rush Limbaugh and the Need for a New Fairness Doctrine
The Death Of Local News
The Local Journalism Initiative (LJI): A proposal from MR author Robert W. McChesney
The New York Times gives Trump credit for Biden's success in latest act of journalistic malpractice
Tribune shareholders vote to sell legendary chain of newspapers to a hedge fund
Tulsa: ‘A Cover-Up Happens Because the Powers That Be Are Implicated’
What Is ‘Moderate’ About Opposing a Minimum Wage Backed by 3/5ths of Voters?
‘Renouncing violence’ is a demand made almost exclusively of Muslims in the New York Times
Opinions
The Long Troubled United States Relations With China: U.S. Globalism, the Open Door Notes, and the Centrality of China for Building A Global Empire
Open Letter to President Biden
Opinion: This must be what it felt like to be a Loyalist in 1770
Purdue, do the right thing and mandate the COVID-19 vaccine
Lock him up! Why is repeat offender Donald Trump still a free man?
Letter from an American
READING THE MORNING PAPER IN KURT VONNEGUT’S HOOSIER STATE
Environment
Feeding the World Better Without Factory Farms:
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