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Young People Take to Streets in Global Climate Protest
Anxious about the future and angry about the failure to curb the crisis, thousands joined an urgent call for action against climate change.
Craig Calhoun
Policy-makers: listen!
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Watchdog Refuses to Detail Whistle-Blower Complaint About Trump
The complaint, being discussed in a closed meeting with House lawmakers, addresses a commitment that President Trump was said to have made to a world leader.
Craig Calhoun
Does the Acting Director of National Intelligence lack intelligence or commitment to the nation?
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Trump Muddies the Air
To dismantle the Obama climate legacy, he’s taking on California, the auto industry, the Clean Air Act and public opinion.
Craig Calhoun
Trump attacks clean air and California's right to improve its environment motivated by nothing more than the desire to look powerful and do the opposite of anything Barrack Obama did. Sad and dangerous.
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New Mexico Announces Plan for Free College for State Residents
Under the plan, tuition to all state colleges would be free for students regardless of family income.
Craig Calhoun
“We don’t ask people to pay for fifth grade and we also should not ask people to pay for sophomore year.” - Caitlin Zaloom
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Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least?
Higher education was meant to be a great equalizer. Paul Tough’s “The Years That Matter Most” suggests that colleges and universities are exacerbating inequality, not reducing it.
Craig Calhoun
Yes.
At least in most of the elite universities. Alas.
Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least?
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Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
The move, expected Wednesday, would strip California of its special authority to set tougher rules on car emissions.
Craig Calhoun
Federal government overreach!
Trump to Revoke California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
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For G.M. Workers, U.A.W. Strike Is Chance for Overdue Reward
Union members are pushing for what they see as a fair share of the company’s hefty returns, a decade after its bankruptcy, as negotiations continue.
Craig Calhoun
Workers supported GM. GM is not supporting workers.
For G.M. Workers, U.A.W. Strike Is Chance for Overdue Fairness
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Johnson humiliated by Luxembourg PM at 'empty chair' press conference
Xavier Bettel gesticulates at empty podium as British PM skips press conference amid loud protests
Craig Calhoun
Johnson humiliated (brilliantly) by Luxembourg PM at 'empty chair' press conference. After he humiliates himself by refusing to face protestors and is humiliated by exposure of his false descriptions of progress with the EU.
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Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
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Craig Calhoun
An extreme case of ethno-nationalism as enforced conformity, suppressing not just political dissent but culture, identity, and intellectual life.
Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
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Andrew Yang: SNL should not fire cast member Shane Gillis over racist remarks
New SNL hire, who called 2020 candidate ‘a Jew chink’ on podcast, says in statement: ‘My intention is never to hurt anyone’
Craig Calhoun
Very gracious and conciliatory of Yang. But really, NBC should stop tolerating, indeed, supporting, this bullshit. Embarrassing they haven’t let Gillis go already.
Andrew Yang: SNL should not fire cast member Shane Gillis over racist remarks
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In Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went to Work and the World Quietly Changed
From 2010 to 2017, Letcher County in Kentucky saw a greater shift in the gender balance of its labor force than almost any other county in the United States.
Craig Calhoun
“When the mines left, they all ended up on drugs,” Ms. Baker added. “And their women went to work.”
Gender, class, economic transformation, and neoliberalism, collide and entangle.
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Trump Inspires California Lawmakers to Go on Offense
California Democrats have been energized by a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to enact a sweeping liberal agenda that in almost every way offers a counternarrative to Trump administration policies.
The Indigenous Man Who Declared His Own Country
Excluded from Australia’s Constitution, Murrumu of Walubara, an Aboriginal man, renounced his citizenship and formed a sovereign nation in the northern reaches of the continent.
Craig Calhoun
How settler societies work with indigenous people whose ancestral lands they've taken is one of the great moral and practical tests for countries around the world.
The Indigenous Man Who Declared His Own Country
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Cable Cars Over Jerusalem? Some See ‘Disneyfication’ of Holy City
The architecture of occupation: A planned cable-car network to Jewish holy sites bypasses Palestinians and furthers Israel’s claims over East Jerusalem.
Craig Calhoun
Those described in this article as the 'right wing Israeli leaders' promoting this desecration should really be called Philistines.
Cable Cars Over Jerusalem? Some See ‘Disneyfication’ of Holy City
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LSE’s new Centre Building review – a study in shades of Pompidou
This bright, shared space is designed to lure students and staff alike out of their rooms
Craig Calhoun
Wonderful review of LSE’s new Centre Building - which will be fantastic support for students and staff, learning and research - and continuation of LSE's great global thought leadership.
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Craig Calhoun
I'm thrilled at completion of LSE’s new Centre Building. Having committed the School to the temporary closure of Houghton Street I am glad to see such a brilliant result. Congratulations to Julian Robinson who oversaw the major construction project.
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Craig Calhoun
This is the kind of terrific kid Donald Trump is trying to keep out, thus depriving America of talent and making it a less humane country. Why?
Phoenix Christian's Man-Man Freeman's rise from refugee to star running back azcentral.com/story/sports/h… via @azcentral
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