Robert Reich |
Patrolling the Boundaries Inside America
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "America is embroiled in an immigration debate that goes far beyond President Obama’s executive order on undocumented immigrants. It goes to the heart of who 'we' are. And it’s roiling communities across the nation."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "America is embroiled in an immigration debate that goes far beyond President Obama’s executive order on undocumented immigrants. It goes to the heart of who 'we' are. And it’s roiling communities across the nation."
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Teaching Cops
to 'Just Walk Away'
Gene Johnson and Eric Tucker, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The grand jury that declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was focused on whether he might have acted in self-defense when he shot and killed unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown. But the case raises another question: Could Wilson have avoided getting into a spot where he had to make that split-second, life-or-death decision?"
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Gene Johnson and Eric Tucker, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The grand jury that declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was focused on whether he might have acted in self-defense when he shot and killed unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown. But the case raises another question: Could Wilson have avoided getting into a spot where he had to make that split-second, life-or-death decision?"
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The One Word
That Kept Darren Wilson out of Jail
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "It’s just a way to pass the buck. Darren Wilson did not escape accountability for shooting Michael Brown dead because of the law. He escaped accountability because, as a society, a majority of us are OK with that outcome."
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Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "It’s just a way to pass the buck. Darren Wilson did not escape accountability for shooting Michael Brown dead because of the law. He escaped accountability because, as a society, a majority of us are OK with that outcome."
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Stop Hanging
Pregnant Workers Out to Dry
Raina Lipsitz, ThinkProgress
Lipsitz writes: "The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act currently before Congress would require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers who need them unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the business — a standard that applies to workers with disabilities. But it faces a Congress that passes laws about as often as the Los Angeles Clippers win basketball games."
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Raina Lipsitz, ThinkProgress
Lipsitz writes: "The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act currently before Congress would require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers who need them unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the business — a standard that applies to workers with disabilities. But it faces a Congress that passes laws about as often as the Los Angeles Clippers win basketball games."
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Michele
Roberts vs. the NBA: Why the New Head of the Players Union Is a Hero for
Progressive Sports Fans
Will Leitch, New York Magazine
Leitch writes: "If you’re looking for the one person most likely to alter the world of sports most dramatically over the next decade, it’s not LeBron James or Roger Goodell. It’s this 58-year-old woman sitting in her office in Harlem, ready to watch the sports world burn."
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Will Leitch, New York Magazine
Leitch writes: "If you’re looking for the one person most likely to alter the world of sports most dramatically over the next decade, it’s not LeBron James or Roger Goodell. It’s this 58-year-old woman sitting in her office in Harlem, ready to watch the sports world burn."
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Japan Is Back
in the Hunt for Whales
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "Claiming purely 'scientific' motives, Japan’s political leaders are cynically planning to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean, despite the International Court of Justice finding that the Japanese government regularly violated its obligations under the international ban against commercial whaling off Antarctica."
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The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "Claiming purely 'scientific' motives, Japan’s political leaders are cynically planning to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean, despite the International Court of Justice finding that the Japanese government regularly violated its obligations under the international ban against commercial whaling off Antarctica."
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Rare Optimism
Ahead of Climate Talks in Lima
Karl Ritter and Frank Bajak, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Energized by new targets set by China and the United States, the world's top climate polluters, U.N. global warming talks resume Monday with unusual optimism despite evidence that human-generated climate change is already happening and bound to get worse."
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Karl Ritter and Frank Bajak, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Energized by new targets set by China and the United States, the world's top climate polluters, U.N. global warming talks resume Monday with unusual optimism despite evidence that human-generated climate change is already happening and bound to get worse."
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