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Nov 19 2021
Conversation Guide
Anxiety and Elections
Therapist and author Steven Stosny, in an article for Psychology Today coined the phrase “election stress disorder” or ESD – a kind of takeover of the adult, rational brain by the more emotional toddler brain which is highly susceptible to emotional influences. Have you read the headline news about elections or their results and found your blood pressure rise and your mood change? Do you find
Living Room ConversationsJan 20 2022
News
Joe Biden one year: How is he doing so far?
Speaking to a divided country in the midst of a pandemic, just weeks after the Capitol riot, he vowed to bring back unity and do "great things".
"We can right wrongs. We can put people to work in good jobs. We can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome this deadly virus," he said.
A year into his presidency, we take a look at what progress Mr Biden has made, his
BBC NewsMar 09 2023
Headline Roundup
White House Releases $6.8 Trillion Budget Proposal For 2024
President Biden released his federal budget proposal for the 2024 fiscal year. The plan includes raising taxes on high-earning Americans and corporations in an effort to reduce the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade.
Details: The nearly $7 trillion budget plan aims to fund Medicare into the 2050s, expand the child tax credit to $3,000 per child, allocate $59 billion to
Wall Street Journal (News) Axios Washington ExaminerOct 09 2021
Analysis
“Until I Am Free”: Keisha Blain on the Enduring Legacy of Voting Rights Pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer
As Republican lawmakers attempt to make it harder to vote in states across the country, we look at the life and legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, the civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Historian Keisha Blain writes about Hamer in her new book, “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.” In addition to fighting for voting rights,
Democracy Now!Dec 10 2021
Opinion
Throw the book at hate-hoaxer Jussie Smollett
The story of Jussie Smollett and the implausible hate crime attack against him is now familiar to nearly everyone.
Smollett, a little-known actor on a long-running Fox television show, claimed to have been walking down the street minding his own business at 2 a.m. in downtown Chicago when he was attacked by two white Trump supporters wearing red "Make America Great Again" hats who made
Washington ExaminerJul 17 2021
News
Climate Profiteering: $13.5B Trust for California Fire Victims Funnels Funds to Lawyers & Consultants
We look at the corporate profiteering off people who lost their homes and loved ones to recent fires in California, where wildfires continue to rage amid record temperatures. A major investigation by KQED and NPR’s California Newsroom found a special trust set up to distribute $13.5 billion to survivors of wildfires caused by PG&E — the state’s largest utility company — instead
Democracy Now!Oct 24 2016
News
Trump Vows to ‘Break Up The New Media Conglomerate Oligopolies’
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises he’d break up the few corporations that dominate important industries and are working overtime to influence the vote.
Breitbart NewsApr 26 2017
News
A fatal flaw in Trump's tax cut: Senate rules
President Donald Trump's ambitious goal of reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% without concern over deficits has a fatal problem: Senate rules.
CNN (Online News)Feb 26 2017
News
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Democratic Party in need of ‘total transformation’
Sen. Bernard Sanders says the Democratic Party needs a “total transformation” that emphasizes its opposition to corporate power in order to bring working people back into the party.
Washington TimesMay 07 2020
News
The high-rise office you left in March may not resemble the one you’re going back to. Here’s what workplaces may look like after the coronavirus shutdown.
Masked workers walk through an entrance-only door into the office high-rise, where their temperatures are taken while passing through security.
Lines form in lobbies as elevators bring small groups of workers — each facing a different wall — to their floors.
Touchless doors open into corporate offices, which have been reconfigured to limit close, face-to-face encounters.
Chicago Tribune