Tag: environment

Trump’s trade war with China is finally here — and it won’t be pretty, analysts say – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-finally-here–and-it-wont-be-pretty/2018/07/05/0e43048c-802c-11e8-b9f0-61b08cdd0ea1_story.html?sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.a4fb4736a3bf by Danielle Paquette and

Minimum wage? It’s time to talk about a maximum wage | Sam Pizzigati | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/30/minimum-wage-maximum-wage-income-inequality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Sam PizzigatiSat 30 Jun 2018 06.00 EDT

A US civility crisis: Total political war – BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44620412 Anthony Zurcher North America reporter @awzurcher Getty Images Interrupted dinners, driveway confrontations, threatening leaflets.

In One of the World’s Richest Countries, Most Single Mothers Live in Poverty – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-24/the-children-of-japan-s-single-mothers-are-living-in-poverty?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews How the taboo of single mothers created an underclass of

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