VERY QUICK note on why Trump will prevail - Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief of iDose (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"The framing of King’s question—that Zuckerberg, not Trump, was the one at the dinner being lobbied—was notable to Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber. 'No better example of Facebook’s power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump,' Shubber tweeted," writes Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams staff writer (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"No one who followed the debate at the time should have been in the least surprised by the loss of high paying union manufacturing jobs to Mexico, that is exactly the result that NAFTA was designed for," writes Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C. (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"Increases in lifespan are one of the greatest success stories of modern society. Yet while most of us can expect to live longer," writes James Brown, Aston University (Nov. 27th, 2019)
'In August 19, 2019, Afghanistan marked the 100th anniversary of its independence from Great Britain. Historic as that milestone was for Afghans, it scarcely received mention in the American press," writes Faiz Ahmed, Brown University (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"Nobody really believes that our mental health system is fit for purpose, but too many people persist in reinforcing this failed system," writes Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"Many see Freeland as ambitious and a possible successor to Trudeau. So does this position favour that aspiration," asks Peggy Nash, Ryerson University (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"Probably the most interesting thing we have learned is how contagious revenge can become, across people and time," says Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"Plato, one of the earliest thinkers and writers about democracy, predicted that letting people govern themselves would eventually lead the masses to support the rule of tyrants. When I tell my college-level philosophy students that in about 380 B.C. he asked “does not tyranny spring from democracy,” they’re sometimes surprised, thinking it’s a shocking connection," writes Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology (Nov. 27th, 2019)