July 14, 2022
Cover Story
Editorial Board
The families of victims are tired of people offering thoughts and prayers. They want action!
There have been at least 214 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, the most recent being the killings during a July 4…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
the bad karma this nation has mass-produced around the globe and within its borders has come back to haunt the country.
1963 America, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly had his head blown off in Dallas, Texas, then a welcoming southwestern home to the Neo Confederacy: some…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Overturning Roe v. Wade was a triumph of politics and ideology over constitutional principles.
Regardless of anyone’s views on abortion, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson took away a reproductive right that a half-century of hard-fought judicial precedent…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Now, many more women’s lives will be permanently disturbed by the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and maternal mortality rates are sure to rise due to unsafe pregnancies.
A shared ache radiates this summer across the collective of those of us born with breasts, wombs, and vaginas . It is the ache of a…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The NLRB has not had an increase in funding since 2014, the year that the Republicans took control of Congress during the Obama administration and reignited their decades-old campaign to deep-six workers’ rights to unionize.
The budget for the National Labor Relations Board for fiscal year 2022 was $274 million, which might sound like a lot of money. But it is…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
It’s amazing how the law can be twisted to serve the interests of the powerful.
A book that shook my world was journalist Hedrick Smith’s “The Power Game,” published 35 years ago in 1987. It was about “How Washington really works,”…
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