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Robert Reich | The Real Reason for Impeachment 

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "In today's political climate, the question of whether or not to impeach the President of the United States is often thought of in political terms."
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U.S. citizen Francisco Galicia, 18, chats with his attorney, Claudia Galan, after his release from the South Texas Detention Facility in Pearsall, Texas. (photo: Kin Man Hui/LMT)

A US-Born Teen Was in Border Custody for 23 Days. Now He's Suing the Government
Christine Bolanos, Guardian UK
Bolanos writes: "A mother and her American-born teenage son are suing two US government agencies and speaking out over the inhumane conditions they said he endured while taken into border custody for more than three weeks."
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller's Grand Jury Secrets
John Wagner, Kayla Epstein and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce congressional subpoenas seeking grand jury information related to the special counsel's investigation, taking steps in the direction of possible impeachment of President Trump."
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use $2.5 Billion in Pentagon Funds for Border Wall
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court handed down a Friday evening order effectively permitting President Trump to reappropriate $2.5 billion dollars from a pool of money intended to support anti-drug activities to construction of a Mexican border wall. The case is Trump v. Sierra Club."
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This picture was posted on one of the students' private Instagram account in March, prompting a bias complaint to be filed with the university shortly after. (photo: Instagram)

Three White Ole Miss Frat Brothers Posed With Guns in Front of Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "Three white fraternity brothers at the University of Mississippi are the subject of a Justice Department civil rights investigation after one of the students posted a picture of the trio posing with guns in front a bullet-riddled roadside memorial to Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 torture and murder galvanized the civil rights movement."
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Two ethnic Uyghur women pass Chinese paramilitary policemen. (photo: Peter Parks/Getty Images)

Child Separation and Prison Camps: China's Campaign Against Uyghur Muslims Is "Cultural Genocide"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang."





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A boy attempting to cool off under a public water spray in Paris. (photo: Philippe Lopez/Getty Images)

July Is on Track to Become Earth's Hottest Month on Record, Climate Scientists Say
Denise Chow, NBC News
Chow writes: "July is on track to become the hottest month in recorded history, climate scientists say, after heat waves blanketed North America and the Arctic saw warmer than usual temperatures."
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Jeffrey Toobin | Clarence Thomas's Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor

23 June 19 If You Do Not Donate If you - our readers - do not fund RSN, RSN does not get funded. The amount of money this thing takes to function on a monthly basis is a pittance. If you're not an active RSN donor, jump in here with a few bucks. Thank you in advance. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

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WHY LARGER DONORS SHOULD SUPPORT READER SUPPORTED NEWS - So it looks like the big donors went to the Democratic Party during the 2016 election cycle and haven’t come back. But look who drove the the surge that took over the House, it was the new progressive energy. Think of the Democratic Party as the machine, think of Progressive energy as the battery. We haven’t seen a $1,000 online donation in 4 months. The small donors cannot do this alone, nor should they. Help! / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Jeffrey Toobin | Clarence Thomas's Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor 

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "A Mississippi prosecutor went on a racist crusade to have a black man executed. Clarence Thomas thinks that was just fine."
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A protest against Donald Trump's racist immigration policies. (photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump Now Says He'll Delay Massive ICE Raids For 2 Weeks
David Boddiger, Splinter
Boddiger writes: "Just hours after he defended his order for nationwide raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of families on Sunday, Donald Trump reversed course and said the raids would be delayed by two weeks pending negotiations between Democrats and Republicans."
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ICE enforcement and removal operations unit raid to apprehend immigrants without any legal status and who may be deportable in Riverside. (photo: Ifran Khan/LA Times/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: US Cities Prepare for Possible ICE
Raids Targeting Undocumented Families

Here's What to Do if ICE Shows Up at Your Door
Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress
Khatami writes: "Ahead of mass raids planned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in 10 U.S. cities Sunday, immigration advocacy groups are rushing to alert migrants of their rights if agents show up at their doors."
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A woman wears a t-shirt honoring the gay rights movement outside the Stonewall Inn on June 24, 2016 in New York City. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Why Stonewall Matters Today
Andy Thayer, Jacobin
Thayer writes: "The police raid on New York's Stonewall Inn fifty years ago this month is widely viewed as the most pivotal event in LGBT* history, spawning a movement which prompted many millions around the globe to come out of the closet and fight for their freedom."
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Mark Zuckerberg. (photo: B&T)

Big Tech's War for Your Wallet: Facebook Sparks Outrage After Announcing Plans for Digital Currency
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "I mean, first of all, do you trust Mark Zuckerberg with anything around privacy at this point, after years and years of these revelations?"





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A man protests against the imprisonment of Lula in 2018. (photo: Midia Ninja/Flickr)

Brazil: Corruption as a Mode of Rule
Benjamin Fogel, NACLA
Fogel writes: "Brazil is currently locked in a political crisis that threatens to undermine its democratic institutions."
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St. Martin Parish Sheriff's deputies arrest water protector Cherri Foytlin on Sept. 4, 2018 on a remote piece of land in the Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana. (photo: Karen Savage)

This Louisiana Parish Allowed a Quarter of Its Sheriff's Deputies to Work Security for a Pipeline
Karen Savage and Sarah Lazare, In These Times
Excerpt: "As construction equipment roared back to life, opponents of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline—part of the larger project connecting the Dakota Access pipeline to refineries in Louisiana—shook their heads in dismay." 

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Paul Krugman | Mar-a-Lago Comes for British Health

10 June 19 Waving Hands for Donations - Help No movement at all at this point on donations. “Someone else” is not the answer. We cannot serve a million readers per month with 30 per day donating. Not fair, not possible. Come on, folks! Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts CA 95611

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YESTERDAY NO ONE DONATED, WE GOT KILLED - A grand total of 11 people donated for a total of $280. Not every day is like that. Some days we have that by early morning. When we get “reasonable” donations, we move quickly and finish with a minimum of stress. Let’s focus on today. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Paul Krugman | Mar-a-Lago Comes for British Health 

Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Never mind what was going on in Trump's mind. Let's focus instead on the fact that no American politician, Trump least of all, has any business giving other countries advice on health care."
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National Socialist Movement members demonstrate against the LGBT event Motor City Pride. (photo: Reuters)

LGBT Pride Marches in US Interrupted by Neo-Nazis and Stampede
Tom Embury-Dennis, The Independent
Embury-Dennis writes: "Separate LGBT+ pride marches in the US were disrupted on Saturday, one by a stampede triggered over fears of a shooting and another by one of America's biggest neo-Nazi groups."
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Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised state budget in Sacramento on May 9. (photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

California Will Give Health Coverage to Undocumented Young Adults
Alexei Koseff, The San Francisco Chronicle
Koseff writes: "California will make young undocumented adults eligible for the state's health care program for the poor and require all residents to carry health insurance under a budget deal unveiled Sunday."
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Jessica Stallings says she was 12 when her uncle started raping her. Despite DNA tests that proved incest, her uncle has maintained parental rights to their two children. (photo: Audra Melton/WP)

In Alabama Rapists Have Parental Rights
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, The Washington Post
Wax-Thibodeaux writes: "When a young woman came to the Family Services of North Alabama office last year for help with trauma, saying she had been raped by her step-uncle when she was 15, rape crisis advocate Portia Shepherd heard something that 'killed me, shocked me.'"
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Historically, American law has carved out a 'clergy-penitent privilege' for the confessional that is similar to attorney-client privilege. (photo: Annie Spratt/Unsplash)

Why Catholics Are Up in Arms Over the "Hostile" California Confession Bill
Ruth Graham, Slate
Graham writes: "Last month state senators in Sacramento passed a bill that some say will force Catholic priests to violate a Catholic sacrament: confession, also known as the sacrament of reconciliation."
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Child soldiers in Mexico. (photo: Jeremy Kryt)

Mexico's Latest Recruits to Fight Cartels: Child Soldiers
Jeremy Kryt, The Daily Beast
Kryt writes: "In the midst of a cartel war zone children as young as six train to defend themselves against an army of encroaching sicarios."
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Michael Bloomberg. (photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Michael Bloomberg Unveils $500 Million Initiative to Help Shutter the Nation's Coal-Fired Plants
Nick Visser, Grist
Visser writes: "Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will donate $500 million to fund a new initiative to shut down every remaining coal-fired power plant in America by 2030, a high-powered effort to counter the pro-fossil fuel agenda emanating from the White House, his foundation said Thursday."
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Robert Reich | Elizabeth Warren's Economic Nationalism Vision Shows There's a Better Way

10 June 19 Almost Everyone Here Can Afford to Chip In There may be some people who come to Reader Supported News who literally cannot afford to donate anything at all, but in truth, it's not too many. We are not a “for-profit” organization. We are a for-the-people organization. We raise money to fund the services and keep the lights on. We do a damn good job. In peace and solidarity. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts CA 95611

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WAVING HANDS FOR DONATIONS - HELP: No movement at all at this point on donations. “Someone else” is not the answer. We cannot serve a million readers per month with 30 per day donating. Not fair, not possible. Come on, folks! / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Robert Reich | Elizabeth Warren's Economic Nationalism Vision Shows There's a Better Way 

Robert Reich, Guardian UK
Reich writes: "As we're now witnessing, Trumpian economic nationalism is a zero-sum game in which the industries of the future are dominated either by China or by the United States. We win or they win."
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Joe Biden. (photo: Getty Images)

Joe Biden's Lead Slips as Elizabeth Warren Surges, Iowa Poll Shows
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "On the heels of a major Iowa poll which showed a big slip in his big lead over the Democratic field, Joe Biden was conspicuous by his absence from the guest list for a big party event in the state on Sunday."
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee is headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder. (photo: Getty Images)

Legal Fight Over Jim Crow-Era Law Upends Mississippi Governor Race
Reid Wilson, The Hill
Wilson writes: "Jim Crow-era provisions in Mississippi's state constitution meant to exclude African Americans from winning political office could decide this year's race for governor, and Democrats are suing to block it."
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A rainbow flag hangs on the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on May 20, 2019. (photo: Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Some US Embassies Still Hoisting Rainbow Flags, Despite Advisory From State Department
Carol Morello, The Washington Post
Morello writes: "Since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during LGBTQ Pride Month this year, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy."
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A protester wearing a Handmaid's Tale costume. (photo: Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: I Gave the University of Alabama $26.5 Million.
They Gave It Back When I Spoke Out About Abortion.

University of Alabama Returns Largest Donation in School History After Donor Criticized Abortion Ban
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, ThinkProgress
Varkiani writes: "The University of Alabama has returned a $21.5 million donation to a donor who spoke out for the need to protect access to abortion." 

Chelsea Barton@ChelseaBarton_

NOW: University of Alabama grounds crews are taking down the signage in front of UA’s School of Law. The Board of Trustees voted this morning to return Hugh Culverhouse’s $21.5 million donation and restore the name of the law school to The University of Alabama School of Law.

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New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern wants to prioritize national well-being. (photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Forget GDP - New Zealand Is Prioritizing Gross National Well-Being
Sigal Samuel, Vox
Samuel writes: "We usually think of a country's wealth or capital in terms of its financial bottom line: its gross domestic product. But New Zealand challenged the world to assess it in terms of a very different commodity, as the country released the first-ever 'well-being budget' on May 30."
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Fossil fuel emissions. (photo: J David Ake/AP)

EPA's 3 Dirty Tricks to Undermine Regulation (and Why They Probably Won't Work)
Richard L. Revesz, Slate
Revesz writes: "The Trump administration appears to be entering an alarming new stage of its attack on environmental protection."
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