Fake News, #Pizzagate, and the Ugly Turn to the Right after Trump
From today’s New York Times: The North Carolina man who was arrested on Sunday for firing a rifle in a popular Washington pizzeria confirmed he was motivated by the storm…
Kellogg’s pulls ads from white nationalists, Breitbart calls for un-American boycott
From today’s Wall Street Journal: Breitbart News is asking its readers to boycott Kellogg Co. after the cereal maker said it would no longer advertise on the conservative news website.…
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Trump Cabinet Signals Embrace of Wall Street Elite
We told you so, America. Trump voters have elected a billionaire business man, with a myriad of conflicts of interest between his private companies and his new public position, and…
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Don’t believe economic lies that Trump peddles this election
From today’s NYT article on Trump’s economic policy speech: “But the economic agenda Mr. Trump described included many traditionally Republican policies that offer little to no direct benefit to working-class…
Just 9 percent of eligible voters chose Clinton vs. Trump
The New York Times has an excellent interactive graphic that illustrates just how problematic American democracy is, given widespread skepticism about the choices voters face in the 2016 Presidential Election.…
Cal State Faculty Unions protest Chancellor Tim White’s campus visits, prepare themselves for strike
Hundreds of thousands of Cal State students will not have to worry about their professors going out on strike after the union representing faculty members failed to authorize a work…
On MLK Day, Wisdom about Work
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Strong Unions, Strong Democracy
From yesterday’s New York Times “Opinion” by By Richard Kahlenberg IF the questions that came up during oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on Monday are any guide,…
SCOTUS upholds equal protection, rules against laws excluding gays and lesbians from marriage
What a long, strange trip it’s been. In 2003 I was a graduate student in the philosophy program at UCSD, taking a seminar on jurisprudence from the eminent moral philosopher…
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The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century
From today’s NYT “UpShot” Blog by David Leonhardt: American workers have been receiving meager pay increases for so long now that it’s reasonable to talk in sweeping terms about the…