Month: June 2018

The Death of a Once Great City | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/ The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence By Kevin Baker

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients : The Salt : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/19/616098095/as-carbon-dioxide-levels-rise-major-crops-are-losing-nutrients Merrit KennedyJune 19, 20185:02 AM ET Rice within the

Opinion | Fall of the American Empire – The New York Times https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opinion/immigration-trump-children-american-empire.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage June 18, 2018 Doug Mills/The New York Times The U.S. government is,

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country – The New York Times https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage June 19, 2018 Tori Venable, Tennessee state

There’s a reason why you can’t afford to live in America | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/18/middle-class-debt-squeezed-alissa-quart-extract?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other In this extract of her new book, Guardian

‘This is huge’: black liberationist speaks out after her 40 years in prison | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/debbie-sims-africa-free-prison-move-nine-philadelphia-police?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Exclusive: Debbie Sims Africa, the

Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’ | The Kansas City Star http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article213048999.html Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in

#Tankman2018: hero of Tiananmen protest remembered across globe | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/tankman2018-hero-of-tiananmen-protest-remembered-across-globe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other On the 29th anniversary of the crackdown in Beijing, protesters

Trump’s child separation policy is a moral and constitutional abomination. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/trumps-child-separation-policy-is-a-moral-and-constitutional-abomination.html Jeremy Stahl June 03, 20187:30 PM

A president can’t obstruct justice? That’s not quite right, legal scholars say. – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-president-cant-obstruct-justice-thats-not-quite-right-legal-scholars-say/2018/06/03/a66f057e-6742-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.2f3479b62d2e The assertion by President Trump’s lawyers that he