Monday, May 12, 2014

RSN: Why There Is No Liberal Equivalent to Climate Change Denial, Crazy Climate Economics, I Can't Get There Tomorrow, But I Can Come on Thursday, et al


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Elizabeth Warren | I Can't Get There Tomorrow, But I Can Come on Thursday
Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Boston Globe)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "The deck has been stacked against working moms for years. And even though women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, it's only getting worse."
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Trail Ride Challenges Federal Control of Utah Land
Jennifer Dobner, Reuters
Dobner writes: "Hundreds of activists seeking to directly challenge federal control of swathes of territory in the U.S. West on Saturday drove dozens of all-terrain vehicles into protected land in Utah that is home to Native American artifacts and where such journeys are banned."
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Paul Krugman | Crazy Climate Economics
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Everywhere you look these days, you see Marxism on the rise. Well, O.K., maybe you don't — but conservatives do. If you so much as mention income inequality, you'll be denounced as the second coming of Joseph Stalin."
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Editors Don't Belong in Courtrooms, and Cecily McMillan Doesn't Belong in Prison
Kathryn Funkhouser, The Nation
Funkhouser writes: "Throughout the case, the prosecutor set out to distract the jury from the question at hand by discussing undocumented events, treating witnesses' opinions as fact and casting aspersions on McMillan's character. Judge Zweibel gave them free rein to do so, while consistently ruling key testimony and evidence for the defense inadmissible."
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Hard Not to See Bias in Michael Sam's Draft Fall
Hank Koebler, The Huffington Post
Koebler writes: "If Michael Sam were straight -- or hiding his sexuality -- I find it hard to believe he would've been available for the St. Louis Rams to draft him with the 249th pick in the draft."
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Mothers' Thankless Work Building an Economy for the Rest of Us
Bryce Covert, The Nation
Covert writes: "While it merely aims to inspire schmaltzy feelings about the sacrifice our mothers make for us, it also highlights the very real, backbreaking, time-consuming work it takes to be a parent."
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Why There Is No Liberal Equivalent to Climate Change Denial
Ben Adler, Grist
Adler writes: "The center-left wonkosphere has been roiled by a recent debate over whether liberals are really just as intellectually dishonest as conservatives."
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