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Commentary: A system that rewards fights and punishes solutions
Child abuse and neglect deaths deserve more light, attention
Data shows mental health, education declines for Hoosier kids
Following The Money
Gun-Safety Advocates Face Uphill Battle with Indiana Lawmakers
Healthcare costs top legislative priorities
IN Legislature Advances Bill to Improve Seniors' Access to SNAP Benefits
Indiana Apprenticeship Initiative Win-Win for Students, Employers
Indiana Housing Market Struggles with Affordability, Demand
Indiana abortions drop significantly, despite pause on statewide ban
Indiana lawmakers weigh bill to create universal school choice program
Indiana lawmakers will again consider a bill to ban certain topics on race and sex from classrooms
NRA convention set for this spring in Indianapolis
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Report: Drug Overdoses Killing More People in Indiana, Nationwide
Report: More than 24,000 Miles of IN Waters Unsafe for Recreation
Report: Top 1% Income Leaves Working Families Behind During Pandemic
‘Ground zero of the Republican Civil War’: The Indiana Senate race could get ugly, quickly
A 'disaster for Indiana': Mike Braun’s constituents revolt after GOP senator criticized legalization of interracial marriage
Baby boxes in Indiana continue to increase
Bringing up the Rear
Driving cards for unauthorized immigrants back on legislative agenda
Energy Assistance Program applications now being accepted
Enhanced SNAP Benefits for IN Residents Come to End
Federal Investment to Boost Emergency Food Aid in Indiana
Hoosier midterm election turnout drops 20%, with Marion near the bottom
IN Electric-Vehicle Infrastructure Plan Open for Public Comment
IN Officials Ask Public to Weigh in on Electric-Vehicle Infrastructure
IN Poised to Pass Transgender-Student Sports Ban
Indiana AG Escalates Fact-Free War on Doc Who Performed 10-Year-Old’s Abortion
Indiana Child Advocates Demand Action on Renewing Child Tax Credit
Indiana Group Cheers New National Strategy on Hunger
Indiana's record-breaking gasoline taxes heading even higher in August
Indiana’s horrific public health standing is a choice it’s willing to make
Legislators skeptical as agencies outline their needs
Librarians left out of literacy initiative
Lilly CEO takes critical stance against Indiana economy
New abortion law may further strain foster care system
Supreme Court Case Could Dramatically Expand Power of State Legislatures
The State Campaign Finance Index 2022
These 10 states are America’s worst places to live in 2022
Concerns Raised Over IN's New Permitless Handgun-Carry Law
Local
Controversy after conservative commentator announces visit
Fairfield Township Open House
Purdue Students, Staff, and Faculty Speak out for a Living Wage -two
Tippecanoe County's First Comprehensive Resource for HIV/STDs Healthcare Service.
City official opposes plan to pay remote workers to relocate to West Lafayette. Here's why
Complaint Alleges Voter-Signup Obstacles in Tippecanoe County
Conversion Therapy
General Election Candidate Debates Announced
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott for U.S. Senator
Heavilon's mold issue continues two decades later
Indoor theme park coming to Tippecanoe Mall this summer
Purdue Students and Faculty Say No to War Criminals on Campus
Purdue University launches Institute for National Security
Purdue and Duke Energy to explore potential for clean, nuclear power source for campus
Some Purdue Black History Milestones
Suggestions for Preventing Gun Violence Locally
TAF Kicks Off "Mural Season" with North 9th Street Project
The Experience of Black Students at Purdue
The Importance Of Local Politics
University Senate discusses PUPD incident, votes against MHAW in academic calendar
While Its Humanities Programs Suffer From Budget Cuts, Purdue University Increases Focus on Military
With SkyWater Technology's added jobs, how will West Lafayette adjust to the influx?
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
RACISM ON THE CAMPUS: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
Student accuses Purdue police officer of using 'excessive force'
The Plan for ARPA Funds
WBAA transfer agreement filed to the FCC
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
Fair Pay at Purdue: $15 Minimum Wage Now!
Graduate student rent relief denied by business office
Hundreds of students attend town hall after Purdue police altercation
May 2021 Civics literacy through shared governance
Purdue, what are you waiting for?
Rolls-Royce expanding research footprint at Purdue University
Stipend approved for those moving to West Lafayette for remote work
Students gather to demand action in town hall meeting
The Road to the Next Superintendent
Tippecanoe County Council: Financial Stewards for the County
Tony Zamora: Purdue’s Renaissance man for 5 decades
Politics
America Is #1 in Gun ownership & Gun Deaths - Time to Wake the Hell Up
As Income Inequality Skyrockets, the Rich Are Paying Less Into Social Security
DeSantis is gutting Florida public education. The New York Times wants to talk about his 'brand'
Dead School Children are a Sign of America’s Trump-Fueled Fascism Problem
Democrats Introduce “Desperately Needed” Legislation to Overturn “Citizens United”
Does America Need an Emmett Till Moment to See How Children are Mutilated by AR15s?
East Palestine Train Derailment Caused and Worsened by Real Democracy Derailment
Florida Rejects Black History AP Curriculum, Saying It “Lacks Educational Value”
GOP Megadonor Is Funding a Far-Right Israeli Think Tank — and Establishment Democrats
Letters from an American
Letters from an American
Republicans Accept No Blame For Bank Failures After They Voted To Deregulate Banks
Republicans would rather kids be shot than let them read books
Seniors’ Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent
The Grift is at the Core of the GOP's Existence
The Heritage Foundation
The monsters of American capitalism
Trump’s Former Budget Director Is Advising GOP to Cut Medicaid by $2 Trillion
A radical proposal to achieve gun reform
Alarm as Koch bankrolls dozens of election denier candidates
Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia
Connecting Foreign Policy to Domestic Needs
Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination
Controversial Texas GOP platform would ‘prohibit’ Palestinian state
Corporate Media Want Us to Think Biden “Lost” to Progressives on Infrastructure
Fetterman Hits The Ground Running!
GOP Is Setting the Stage for a Possible Coup in 2024 While Dems Ignore Threat
New Puerto Rico Debt Plan Is a False “Solution” Crafted to Benefit Capitalists
Republicans Say Biden’s Plan Taxes the Middle Class. That’s False. Biden’s plan fulfills his campaign promise.
Ron DeSantis’s Ousting of Elected Official Sets a Dangerous Precedent
Texas Redux
The Best Parts of the Inflation Reduction Act Came Out of Progressive Advocacy
The Connection Between a Child-Murderer, Reaganism and Today’s GOP
The Constitution Isn’t Working And the Supreme Court can’t fix it by itself.
We Need Elected Leaders Who Will Ban the Sale of Assault Weapons
What Trump Has Taken From Us
Why do the media keep saying this election was a loss for Democrats? It wasn’t
‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
‘More Guns, More Gun Deaths—That’s Really It’
‘We do not need a massive increase’: Sanders criticizes Biden’s $813 billion military budget
$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
8 Election Takeaways: The Progressive Electorate Has Spoken
A Bigotry-Laced 2024 GOP Primary Is Already Breathing Down Our Necks
Avoiding War With Russia Over Ukraine Is Not Weakness—It Is the Right Thing to Do
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)
Fulfilling the Constitution's Promotion of the General Welfare
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
Legal expert tears apart flawed thinking of 'deeply unprincipled' Supreme Court originalists
Letters from an American
Money Money Money…
No Corporate Law and Power Questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
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 28th AMENDMENT
The Dark Money Influencing Senator Manchin’s Right-Wing Agenda
The GOP And QAnon
The rise of domestic extremism in America
This Country Is a Living Nightmare
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
B’Tselem Accuses Israel Government of Backing Pogrom in West Bank Town of Huwara
Israel is a tough sell in the US as it slides toward autocracy - opinion
Over 100,000 Israelis March to Protest Netanyahu Government
Amnesty International Defends Report on Israeli Apartheid, Rejecting Criticism from U.S. & Israel
Biden, Like Trump, Derails Effort to End US Support for Saudi War in Yemen
Chile’s Draft Constitution: Undemocratic—or Too Much Democracy?
Everyone Loses in the Conflict Over Ukraine
Google and Amazon Workers Demand End to Contract That Fuels Israeli Apartheid
ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes. Now It’s Caving to US Pressure.
In Jenin and Nablus, resistance and despair go hand in hand
Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians With Drones in the West Bank
Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill 44, Including 15 Children. Will Ceasefire Hold?
Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine
Lift the Siege of Gaza
May 7, 2022: Actions Everywhere to End War in Ukraine
Peace Activists Hit the Streets From DC to San Francisco Urging Ceasefire in Ukraine
Phyllis Bennis on Progressive Dems Retracting Letter Urging Diplomacy to End Ukraine War
Saudi-Russia Collusion Is Driving Up Gas Prices — and Worsening Ukraine Crisis
The U.S. Hypocrisy on Ukraine
The West Worries Too Much About Escalation in Ukraine
Tlaib: Biden Must ‘Hold Israel Accountable’ for Raid on Palestine Rights Groups
U.S. excludes Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua from Summit of the Americas − Will it boomerang?
Urgent: Largest Expulsion of Palestinians: Please Protest
Zelensky Is Wrecking the Bare-Chested Putin Propaganda
Amidst Pandemic, Dramatic Increases in Economic Inequality, the Rise of Racism, and Climate Disaster, the Danger of War Increases
Convoy Movement Isn’t a Struggle Over Freedom, It’s an Attempt to Kill Democracy
Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry’s for Boycott in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Russia’s Big, Bizarre ‘Thank You!’ to Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley
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
50 Palestinians thrown out of Israeli bus after 3 Jewish settlers refused to travel with non-Jews
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
In the Face of Israel’s Violence, Being a Good Parent Means Fighting Colonialism
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
Putin’s Invasion
Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Left
Stand with Ukraine
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 United States Escalates War in the Heartland of Europe By Sending Advanced Rockets: Makes Diplomacy More Difficult
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
Workers in France conduct one-day general strike
Education
1961 Dr. Seuss book offers lesson on racism too advanced for Ohio school district official to allow
Expanding voucher program would be bad for kids, bad for Indiana
Fact Sheet: Diversity & Inclusion Activities Under Title VI
Humanists All - What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
Muzzled by DeSantis, Critical Race Theory Professors Cancel Courses or Modify Their Teaching
North Dakota Anti-LGBTQ Bill Would Imprison Librarians for Not Removing Books
Targeting the Freedom to Teach and Learn
The Meaning of African American Studies
'Goes beyond ignorance' Historians slam DeSantis' claims about American slavery
A surgeon explains why AR-15-style rifles are so deadly
A tiny, largely unknown Christian college is at the epicenter of today's dark conservative movement
Adjunct and Tenured Faculty Must Unite to Resist Pandemic Opportunism on Campus
An Open Letter to Chuck Hockema
DEFENDING ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND DISCUSSIONS OF RACISM, SEXISM, AND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
Dictating Civics: How the Purdue Civics Literacy Requirement Was Imposed by Trustees and Administrators
Education bill dies in the Indiana Senate
Experts Highlight Importance of Awareness in Bullying Prevention
Fear-Based “Parental Bills of Rights” Are a Right-Wing Siege on Public Education, Advocates Say
Higher education's sea change
How a diverse coalition in a red state shut down anti-CRT legislation
IN House Passes Bill Targeting "Critical Race Theory"
IUPUI to Split Into 2 Universities
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
Indiana Struggles with Ongoing Teacher Shortage
Most-Banned Author in America Calls BS on Parents’ ‘Concern’
National hypersonic ground test facility to be built in Purdue Aerospace District
New wave of teachers’ strikes rolls across US
Purdue English’s Uncertain Future
Ralph Nader: Students, Campuses and Dominant Corporate Power
Report Details Methods to Address IN Declining College Enrollment
Right-Wing Book Censorship Is an Attack on the Minds of Children
Right-Wing “American Birthright” Curriculum Pushes Christianity, Obscures Racism
The Military-Student-Debt Complex
U.S. schools pull more than 1,000 book titles in 'unparalleled' censorship bid, report finds
Virginia’s Governor Mansion Tour No Longer Includes Mention of Enslaved People
We don't need no education: Now Arizona says teachers don't require college degrees
‘Everything on the table’ as IPS addresses enrollment decline and too many schools
'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
COMMERCIAL UNIVERSITY SELLS OFF FOOD SERVICES, CREATES A NEW DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES
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
For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
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 Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization
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
It’s About More Than Banning Books And Distorting History
Lafayette school trustee: Who benefits from school choice?
Lafayette school trustee: Who benefits from school choice?
New Indiana law is meant to protect free speech at universities. It may do the opposite.
Pandemic Could Worsen Educational Inequity for Indiana Women
Purdue Must Restore Its English Program
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
The LynnBerk37 Scholarship
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’
Class and Race in the USA Labor Movement: The Case of the Packinghouse Workers
Damar Hamlin Nearly Died on the Job. Too Many Workers Face Similar Threats.
Dr. King and the Civil Rights-Labor Alliance
The Union Membership Rate Has Dropped to a Historic Low. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way.
The federal program that can protect workers when foreign trade kills their jobs
A Tax Credit Was Meant to Help Marginalized Workers Get Permanent Jobs. Instead It’s Subsidizing Temp Work.
April 28 - Workers Memorial Day
At a Massive Union Rally, the Promise of a Better South
Chicago mandated contracts for domestic workers—and the results have been life changing
Companies That Illegally Fire Workers Will Now Have to Pay for Debts Incurred
Damning Report Shows Unions Have Plenty of Money to Organize—They Just Don't Spend It
Home Depot Workers Have Filed to Form the First Union at the Retail Behemoth
How Congress starved the agency that protects workers
IU Bloomington graduate workers, supporters push back on administration's response
Inflation Is Too High to Settle; We Want a Good Contract!
Low-wage Workers Access to Sick Days
More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude
NLRB Is Understaffed and Underfunded at Critical Moment for Labor Moveme
Nearly Half of All Warehouse Injuries in 2021 Happened at Amazon Warehouses
New York Amazon Workers Vote to Form Union in Historic First
President Biden’s first 18 months
Ron Johnson Suggests That Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Eliminated
Stakes Are High for Workers, So Unions Are Mobilizing for Midterms
Starbucks Workers Are Facing Down One of the Most Intense Union-Busting Campaigns in Decades
Trump Judge Allows Starbucks to Assail Press Freedom
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Amazon’s Anti-Union Campaign Backfires
"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
America Is Breaking the Bargain It Made For Labor Peace
Amid Labor Shortage and Supply Chain Disruption, Workers Have Historic Leverage
If You Care About Free Speech, Make It Harder to Fire People For Unpopular Opinions
Museum Workers Are Joining the Growing Labor Movement
November 5, 2021
Rail Workers Group Supports Public Ownership and Control of the Rail Industry
‘This victory is historic’: Massachusetts Trader Joe’s becomes first to unionize
‘We Need to Transform What It Means to Be an Academic Worker; the Status Quo Is Untenable’
Justice
Congress just passed $858 billion military budget, but GOP is blocking $12 billion to fight child poverty
Following in MLK’s Footsteps Means Resisting Christian Nationalism
How Title Lending Works
Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures
Poverty
‘The Water Crisis Is a Manifestation of Jim Crow Politics’
A fascinating story of a determined fighter against the KKK in Muncie, Indiana
Abusing Immigrants
Alito’s ‘Dobbs’ Opinion Overturning ‘Roe’ Is Judicial Activism at Its Most Self-Deceptive
As the South Cracks Down on Abortion Access, Tax Dollars Flow to Fake Clinics
Black Is a Disease’: Racist Posts Roil Arkansas University
COVID-19 Relief Spending Pushed Poverty To Record Low In 2021
Christian Grievance
DEADLINE TO SIGN IS JULY 7!
DeSantis’ Migrant Stunt Is Kidnapping by Another Name
Esther Jackson, 105: Life Reflected the 20th Century Struggle for Equality
Federal judge blocks Biden's directives to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination
GOP Candidates in MI AG Race Say They Oppose Precedent on Right to Birth Control
Greg Abbott Rejects Biden’s Plea to Pardon Texans With Marijuana Convictions
Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids
How Much Do You Care?
Hundreds 'March for Life' as Indiana lawmakers hold off on major abortion legislation
INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN D.G. KELLEY (edited transcript)
In Rural California, Farmworkers Fend for Themselves for Health Care
LOCAL RESIDENTS ASK U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INVESTIGATE POLICE DOG MAULING IN LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Media’s Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused People
News from the States EVENING WRAP
Of Course the Constitution Has Nothing To Say About Abortion
Purdue announces resolution to Feb. 4 police incident
Real Estate Investors Sold Somali Families on a Fast Track to Homeownership in Minnesota. The Buyers Risk Losing Everything.
Religious Chutzpah
Report Reveals Stark Racial Disparities in IN Bail Costs
Republicans Are Coming For Your Birth Control
Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity
The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
The Racism, and Resilience, Behind Today’s Salmon Crisis
‘We are being hunted’: One year after Atlanta spa shootings, Asian Americans are more scared now than ever
BOOKS / Progressive Giants : Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden
By Taxing the Pandemic Profits of Billionaires, We Could Vaccinate Everyone on Earth
Demand an End to Racist Policing at Purdue
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?
RACISM ON THE CAMPUS: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
The "soft" overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go
The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men
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
Women's labor force participation still lagging
“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
ACLU's Most Recent Interviews with Abortion Providers
America Isn’t Ready to Truly Understand the Buffalo Shooting
America's hardest places to grow up
Before COB on the first workday of 2023, CEOs will make more than the average annual pay for all US workers
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
Early freedom riders, including pioneering Jewish activist, get justice after 75 years
Environmental racism is poisoning America’s waters
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?
Self-Determination Has Been Wrenched Away From Half the US Population
Supreme Court rules kids can be thrown away
The Janes is a call to action
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
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
What Prisoners Eat
Who are the 1 in 4 American women who choose abortion?
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’
‘This Is America. That’s the Kind of Trial Mumia Abu-Jamal Had.’
“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
BEATEN, BOMBED AND BURIED - The decades-long persecution of Forest Defenders
How Global Warming Makes it Freezing Cold
IU Researchers Make Medical “Breakthrough" with Anxiety Blood Test
Oil Lobby Prompts Right-Wing Media to Save Whales—From Wind Power
Abandoned mines and poor oversight worsened Kentucky flooding, attorneys say
After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever
Almost Every Square Inch of the US Is Being Battered by Climate Change Today
Hoosiers' Attitudes and Opinions about Environmental Issues
How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger
Impact of Supreme Court's climate ruling spreads
New Jersey sues five oil companies, alleging decades of ‘concealment’ and ‘public deception’ on climate change
Report: Nearly All Indiana Coal Power Plants Polluting Groundwater
Supreme Court restricts the EPA's authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions
The Window to Adapt to Climate Change Is ‘Rapidly Closing,’ Warns the IPCC
Tougher EPA Methane Regulations Could Improve Indiana Air Quality
West Virginians Gear Up for “Coal Baron Blockade” at Joe Manchin’s Coal Plant
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 Anti-Environmental Bill, HB 1100
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
A Petition to Protect the Cedar Grove Wildlife Corridor
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
Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government
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
20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame
Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media!
Israel’s Hard-Right Turn Fails to Raise Alarm in US Media
Major US Outlets Found Hersh’s Nord Stream Scoop Too Hot to Handle
Media Matters
Murdoch Uses Nashville to Stoke Anti-Trans Hate
Right-Wing Media’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Has Nothing to Do With Concern for Children
Sanders Proposes 'New Deal for Journalism' to Ensure Media Serves Public Interest
The Indiana Citizen joins coalition of news organizations in newly launched Indiana Local News Initiativ
The New York Times Is Diminishing Itself
Under Musk, Twitter Continues to Promote US Propaganda Networks
‘We Live in a New World Where Accountability Barely Exists’
A Socialist in WaPo’s Suburbs
ACTION ALERT: Big Media Want Gigi Sohn Kept Off FCC Board
Antisemitic Threats to Florida Judge Should Be Bigger Story
Corporate media accused of 'cheerleading' US escalation in Ukraine
Documenting the Struggle Against a Hedge Fund Stripping Journalism for Parts
Exclusive: Billionaires back new media firm to combat disinformation
Fox News dangerously declares war on teachers: Calls for violence, accusations of 'inclination' to pedophilia
How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
How a Company Called BlackRock Shapes Your News, Your Life, Our Future
Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Facts
Mainland Media Fail to Ask Why Puerto Rico Requires ‘Resilience’
Media Spin Lula Victory as Defeat
Media Trust, Polling and the Big Lie
NPR Devotes Almost Two Hours to Afghanistan Over Two Weeks—and 30 Seconds to US Starving Afghans
Objectivity Versus Balance
PBS and BBC Team Up to Misinform About Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Prioritizing Fortunetelling Over Reporting Poses a Danger to Democracy
Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War
Selling Albright as a ‘Feminist Icon’: Was the Price Worth It?
Support State and fact-based local Journalism
The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy
‘What Alex Jones Has Peddled Is Now Nearly Indistinguishable from Right-Wing Talking Points’
A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
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
'Are you kidding me?' Reporters criticized for panning Joe Biden's anti-fascism speech
'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’
Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Biden’s Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
CHALLENGING IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY: TAKING ON THE MEDIA
Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt
Corporate Media Stays Silent as US Air Strikes Kill at Least 20 in Somalia
Election 2020
GANNETT CHAIN OWNS 250 NEWSPAPERS (INCLUDING THE JOURNAL AND COURIER) AND SHAPES POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
How Vermont’s Media Helps Keep the State Together
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
Lack of Media Urgency Over GOP Efforts to Steal 2024 Elections
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
Palestinian reporters injured in Jerusalem, 21 media outlets destroyed in Gaza
Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela’s Cuban Doctors
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
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
Talking Back To Talk Radio - Fairness, Democracy, and Profits
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
Letter from an American - March 10, 2023
Letters from an American
Tell Congress: Repeal the Trump-era Rollbacks
Why Assault Weapons?
Assault Weapons
Candidate for State Senate Distric 23
DEMOCRACY, ABORTION, AND GUNS: THREE QUESTIONS
Elise Stefanik Really Doesn’t Need to Embrace Trumpism
From NYTimes Editorial, 9/23/22
Letter to the Editor: 'Sabotaging the Ukrainian people'
We Need a Massive Push for Peace in Ukraine—Now
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?
A Commentary on Facial-Recognition Surveillance
Democratic Party Fantasies About 2022 Midterms Pose Peril For 2024
Letter from an American
Over Fifty Years in West Lafayette
Practice the One Percent Movements People!
READING THE MORNING PAPER IN KURT VONNEGUT’S HOOSIER STATE
