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Robert Reich | The New Poll Tax
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans are being denied the right to vote because they are poor."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans are being denied the right to vote because they are poor."
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FCC Plans Total Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules
Margaret Harding McGill, Politico
McGill writes: "Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate."
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Margaret Harding McGill, Politico
McGill writes: "Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate."
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State Department Revolt: Tillerson Accused of Violating US Law on Child Soldiers
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters
Excerpt: "A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters."
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Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters
Excerpt: "A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters."
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Judge Rules Trump Executive Order Cutting Funding From Sanctuary Cities Is Unconstitutional
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Lithwick writes: "On Monday night, a federal judge in San Francisco permanently enjoined a section of Donald Trump's January executive order cutting funding from so called 'sanctuary cities.' In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick called the provision 'unconstitutional on its face and not simply in its application to the plaintiffs here.'"
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Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Lithwick writes: "On Monday night, a federal judge in San Francisco permanently enjoined a section of Donald Trump's January executive order cutting funding from so called 'sanctuary cities.' In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick called the provision 'unconstitutional on its face and not simply in its application to the plaintiffs here.'"
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Report: Record Number of Trans People Killed in US in 2017
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Some 25 transgender people have been killed so far in the United States this year, a number that breaks annual records, according to several advocacy groups in a report released days prior to Transgender Day of Remembrance."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Some 25 transgender people have been killed so far in the United States this year, a number that breaks annual records, according to several advocacy groups in a report released days prior to Transgender Day of Remembrance."
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe Resigns, Ending Four Decades of Rule
MacDonald Dzirutwe, Reuters
Dzirutwe writes: "Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot."
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MacDonald Dzirutwe, Reuters
Dzirutwe writes: "Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot."
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Ice Apocalypse: Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of This Century
Eric Holthaus, Grist
Holthaus writes: "In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage."
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Eric Holthaus, Grist
Holthaus writes: "In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage."
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