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June 18, 2018

Environment & Health

May 2018 Broke Thousands of Temperature Records Across the US

With hurricanes gaining in intensity, a scientist is proposing a new Category 6 for the future.

by Dahr Jamail, Truthout

June 18, 2018

How to Stop Child Separation? Stop Sending Their Parents to Prison.

Immigrant parents are facing decades in prison for simply migrating.

by Jacinta González, Truthout

June 18, 2018

Economy & Labor

The Tax Cut and the Pay Increase: Halfway There

Shareholders will pocket the bulk of the tax cut through stock buybacks and increased dividend payouts.

by Dean Baker, Truthout

June 18, 2018

Father’s Day Under Trump: A Grotesque Exercise in the Destruction of Families

This administration must be stopped now, or there will be no stopping it.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

May 2018 Broke Thousands of Temperature Records Across the US

A US Border Patrol spotlight shines on a terrified mother and son from Honduras as they are found in the dark near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and had become lost in the woods. They were then detained by Border Patrol agents and then sent to a processing center for possible separation. — How to Stop Child Separation? Stop Sending Their Parents to Prison.

The Tax Cut and the Pay Increase: Halfway There

A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico Border on June 12, 2018, near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent to a US Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation. — Father’s Day Under Trump: A Grotesque Exercise in the Destruction of Families

Human Rights

Migrant Child Detention Center Whistleblower Speaks Out Against Family Separations

by: Amy Goodman

A US Border Patrol spotlight shines on a terrified mother and son from Honduras as they are found in the dark near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and had become lost in the woods. They were then detained by Border Patrol agents and then sent to a processing center for possible separation.

How to Stop Child Separation? Stop Sending Their Parents to Prison.

by: Jacinta González

A sleeping detainee is see through the window of holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville, Texas.

Young People Crossing the Border Alone Face Challenges in the US Homes Where They’re Placed

by: Stephanie L. Canizales

Protesters gather at the Starbucks location in Center City Philadelphia, PA on April 15, 2018, where two black men were arrested days earlier. The arrest prompted controversy after video of the incident became viral.

Revolution, Not Amelioration, Is Necessary to End Oppression

by: Tasasha Henderson

War & Peace

Yemeni war-affected women and girls queue to receive the dinner meal provided by a local charity group on June 10, 2018 in Sana’a, Yemen.

Coalition Ignores Famine Warnings and Continues Assault on Yemen as Critics Question US Complicity

by: Jessica Corbett

Korean Americans activists hold a vigil for peace on June 12, 2018, outside the White House in Washington, DC.

The Singapore Summit: A US Pivot Toward Ending the Korean War?

by: Simone Chun

How the Last Superpower Was Unchained: American Wars and Self-Decline

by: Tom Engelhardt

Winning the News Cycle: Trump’s Made-for-TV Singapore Summit

by: William Rivers Pitt

Special Features

Today’s Capitalism Is a Far Cry From What It Was Intended to Be

Today’s Capitalism Is a Far Cry From What It Was Intended to Be

US protectionism violates capitalism's free-market principle.

by: Ariän Taher

The Coming Storm: Italy Under a Right-Wing Populist Government

The Coming Storm: Italy Under a Right-Wing Populist Government

The government in Rome may discover its incoherent economic agenda is difficult to implement.

by: C.J. Polychroniou

The Singapore Summit: A US Pivot Toward Ending the Korean War?

The Singapore Summit: A US Pivot Toward Ending the Korean War?

Members of the Korean diaspora are hoping for a revival of humanitarian relief.

by: Simone Chun

Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge

Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge

A team of attorneys has found a way to fight back against the racially biased practice.

by: Greg Palast

Politics & Elections

White House Vows New Nominee Will Continue to Gut Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

by: Jessica Corbett

With Spotlight on Migrant Families Separated at the Border, Will Democrats Push to Abolish ICE?

by: Amy Goodman

The Curious Campaign Role of Donald Trump’s Foundation

by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

The Coming Storm: Italy Under a Right-Wing Populist Government

by: C.J. Polychroniou

Environment & Health

Water Restored to Majority of Puerto Rico, but Problems Persist

by: Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

May 2018 Broke Thousands of Temperature Records Across the US

by: Dahr Jamail

The Clichy-Batignolles eco-district in Paris, France, photographed on June 28, 2015.

Paris Is Building the Eco-Community of the Future Right Now. Here’s How.

by: Susannah Shmurak

Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, taken on April 18, 1935.

Increased Deaths and Illnesses From Inhaling Airborne Dust: An Understudied Impact of Climate Change

by: Ploy Pattanun Achakulwisut; Loretta Mickley; Susan Anenberg

Economy & Labor

Missing in Action: The Poor and Their Stories in Mainstream Media

by: Beverly Gologorsky

The Tax Cut and the Pay Increase: Halfway There

by: Dean Baker

Financial District in New York City

Today’s Capitalism Is a Far Cry From What It Was Intended to Be

by: Ariän Taher

Blistering UN Report: Trump Administration Is Intentionally Exacerbating Inequality

by: Amy Goodman

Art & Cartoons

Trumpatriotism

by: Khalil Bendib

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Protesters gather at the Starbucks location in Center City Philadelphia, PA on April 15, 2018, where two black men were arrested days earlier. The arrest prompted controversy after video of the incident became viral.

Human Rights

Revolution, Not Amelioration, Is Necessary to End Oppression

If the change we need is almost unimaginable, we're in an extremely dangerous situation.

Book Review by: Tasasha Henderson

Book

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

This is not a book of compromise, nor does it negotiate with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing for liberation for all people.

Prison & Policing

ICE Killed Roxsana Hernandez

by: Lea Ramirez

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is introduced at a police academy graduation and promotion ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier on June 15, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel Keeps Monitoring Protesters

by: Mick Dumke

Shifting Politics on 287(g) Immigration Enforcement

by: Sue Sturgis

Special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Border Patrol, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) question a man while his vehicle is searched after he was stopped heading into Mexico at the Hidalgo border crossing on May 28, 2010 in Hidalgo, Texas.

How Racial Profiling Goes Unchecked in Immigration Enforcement

by: Kavitha Surana

Education & Youth

Authors, teachers, and parents are upset about Scholastic’s President Donald Trump by Joanne Mattern, saying the biography leaves out his racism, misogyny, xenophobia to the point of inaccuracy.

Scholastic Under Fire for Children’s Book Portrayal of Trump

by: Lornet Turnbull

Lawyer seated behind scales of justice

Staggering Debt and Shattered Hopes: How Law Schools Fail Students of Color

by: Erin L. Thompson

A student works at his desk

Eligible for Financial Aid, Nearly a Million Students Never Get It

by: Meredith Kolodner

FBI agent on a computer

Is the FBI Profiling Students to Interview Without Parental Consent?

by: Huma Yasin

Media Justice

“Not the End of Net Neutrality,” Say Internet Defenders, but Beginning of “Most Important Battle Yet”

by: Jessica Corbett

Actress Roseanne Barr at The Paley Center for Media on March 26, 2018, in New York City.

Roseanne and TV Myths About the Working Class

by: Elizabeth Schulte

The Denver Post and other skyscrapers on July 18, 2016, in Denver, Colorado.

Following Massive Layoffs, the Denver Post Is in Distress

by: Janine Jackson

Roseanne Barr speaks at "Gathering of the Vibes," Bridgeport, CT, US. July, 21, 2012

The Steep Consequences of ABC’s Bet on Roseanne Barr

by: Melanie McFarland

Buzzflash

Buzzflash.com provides original commentary and progressive news aggregation.

The Staggering Hypocrisy of the Supercapitalists

Commentary

The Staggering Hypocrisy of the Supercapitalists

by: Paul Buchheit, Buzzflash

The Staggering Hypocrisy of the Supercapitalists

by: Paul Buchheit, BuzzFlash

How Many Americans Will Die Because of Trump's Solar Tariffs?

by: Joshua Pearce, BuzzFlash

It Can Happen Here

by: Cass R. Sunstein, NY Review of Books