This evening we’ll see Donald Trump and Joe Biden on the same stage, in the first of what are scheduled to be three debates.I will confess that I did not think this event would occur—and I am still not sure about the subsequent ones.
The wealthy no longer fear the taxman. Democrats finally have an opening to fix that.
There’s more than one way to ask why. Look to Russian for an explanation.
Ahead of the first of three presidential debates between President Trump and Joe Biden, we speak with David Cay Johnston, founder and editor-in-chief of DCReport.org, who says the bombshell New York Times report on Trump’s taxes highlights the existence of “two income tax systems, separate and unequal.” The Times reports that Trump paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years and just $750 in 2016 and 2017.
In a historic victory for unhoused people, Philadelphia city officials agreed to hand over 50 vacant homes to a community land trust, following months of organizing and protest encampments. We hear from one of the organizers and speak to Philadelphia-based Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who has written extensively about housing insecurity and says the direct actions there are applicable across the U.S.
Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor says the Breonna Taylor case is contributing to an “unfolding dynamic of radicalization” in the United States as people see repeated cases of police misconduct go unpunished. A grand jury recently declined to charge any of the officers involved in the 26-year-old EMT’s killing for her death.
As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate in Cleveland, we speak to author and academic Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who says the multiple crises facing the United States are not getting enough attention leading up to the November election.
What a prolific hit man can teach us about our obsession with true crime.
Parenting advice on only children, friendship breakups, and parenting differences.
“Four houses fully booked for months—every single one of them canceled. … I banked everything on this.
For book reviews, for research, and even for fun.
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
Parenting advice on temper tantrums, in-laws, and positive parenting.
Contrary to popular belief, you can be assertive without being aggressive.
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Kenny Stancil at Common Dreams writes—Analysis Shows Nearly 80% of US Household Wealth Owned by Millionaires and Billionaires:
In an analysis of 2019 government data released Monday, policy analyst and blogger Matt Bruenig found that last year, millionaires and billionaires owned 79.2% of all household wealth in the United States despite constituting just under 12% of the population.
Maria Marín migrated to the United States two decades ago. The 47-year-old left her home of Veracruz, Mexico, seeking safety and better opportunities. Back then, her oldest daughter was only 7 months old, she says. For the past 17 years, Marín has been a street vendor in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a predominantly working-class and low-income, immigrant, and Latinx neighborhood.
Top House Democrats who on Saturday inspected the immigration prison where women who were horrifically operated on without their consent have been detained called the Georgia facility “a horror show,” and said that officials forbade them from bringing in their own phones to record personal testimonies from detainees. Legislators shared everything they learned from the women immediately following the visit anyway.
Greetings from Northern California, where we just had a weekend of warm, dry weather—which means we are vulnerable to disastrous wildfires.
Indeed, a new fire just started on Sunday in Santa Rosa, only about an hour north of where I live. And we are all nervously eyeing what may happen next.
This has been the worst season for wildfires on the West Coast, ever. Climate change is here, and the effects will get worse.
