Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.

Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.

His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.

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The Resistance Starts Now!

Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement

"The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
"Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
"The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
"Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
"What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress

"Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
Full resource list ...

SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris

SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018

Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state. Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018

Lindsay Kanaly The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018

Richard Wolff, Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill

SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017

Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.

SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017

Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT. Produced by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017

Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017

Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.

SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017

Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny, discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017

Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017

Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017

Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.

SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven

John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.

2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.

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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.

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JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.

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Posted Dec. 27, 2017 for week ending Jan. 5, 2018

"It was actually the dropping of preconditions in negotiations with Iran that led to the breakthrough of starting to talk to Iran, that in turn led to the breakthrough of having the nuclear agreement with Iran."

– Jon Rainwater, executive director of the group Peace Action, on how U.S. negotiations with Iran to sign the nuclear agreement could provide guidance on initiating talks with North Korea.

Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.

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Trump Reverses Tillerson's Offer to Talk with North Korea Without Preconditions

Interview with Jon Rainwater, executive director of the group Peace Action, conducted by Scott Harris

Before the Christmas holiday, there was a brief sign of hope that dangerous rising tensions between the Trump administration and North Korea might be about to ease. On Dec. 12, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued the following statement at the Atlantic Council in Washington: "We've said from the diplomatic side, we're ready to talk anytime North Korea would like to talk. We are ready to have the first meeting without precondition.” Tillerson’s comments were uncharacteristically conciliatory toward Pyongyang, given the fact that during his first speech at the United Nations in September President Trump had threatened to “totally destroy North Korea.” Story continues

New Jersey and Several U.S. Cities Moving to Establish Public Banks

Interview with Ellen Brown, chair of the Public Banking Institute, conducted by Scott Harris

For many Americans, Wall Street and giant U.S. banks are the hated symbol of unbridled greed, which are often implicated in ripping off average workers. For example, Wells Fargo, one of the nation's largest banks, was fined $185 million in civil penalties in 2016 for secretly opening millions of unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts that harmed their customers. Other familiar names in the banking industry, such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup have all been hit with millions of dollars in federal fines for engaging in improper conduct in recent years, including behavior that triggered the subprime mortgage collapse that led to the 2008 meltdown of the global economy. Story continues

U.S. Media Ignores Link Between Meat Consumption and Climate Change

Interview with Roni Neff, program director, Food System Sustainability & Public Health Program at Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

The focus of the 2017 American Public Health Association annual meeting held in November in Atlanta was public health and climate change. The conference featured panels on various aspects of that topic, some exploring the link between agriculture and climate change. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Dozens of Shiite militias in Baghdad loyal to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are celebrating the downfall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. During the height of the ISIS advance into Iraq, Shiite militias resisted the drive for a new caliphate, as Iraq’s government troops melted away. While the United States and its allies waged an air and ground campaign to defeat ISIS, Iran may be the ultimate winner after the downfall of the Sunni terrorist group. ("How Iran, the Mideast's New Superpower, Is Expanding Its Footprint across the Region – and What It Means," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 17, 2017)
South Africa’s African National Congress turned a page when the party’s members elected former Nelson Mandela advisor Cyril Ramaphosa as its new leader and candidate to be South Africa’s president in 2019. The current deputy president defeated Nkosazana Diamini-Zuma, a veteran politician and Mr. Zuma’s former wife. Yet, Ramaphosa, backed by many middle class blacks, failed to win a clear mandate for change, winning by just 179 ballots out of 4,708 cast. The top ANC positions are now split between reformers who backed Ramaphosa and supporters of current President Jacob Zuma, who is mired in corruption scandals. ("No Clean Sweep for South Africa's Ramaphosa in ANC Race," Reuters, Dec. 21, 2017; "South Africa's New Leader to Focus on Corruption and 'radical Economic Transformation'," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 21, 2017; "How Jacob Zuma Captured South Africa, and How He Might Lose Control," The Economist, Dec. 9, 2017)
During a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, La, to protest the killing of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a confrontation spread onto the lawn of onlooker Lisa Batiste. She was sitting on her porch with her adult daughter but soon her front lawn became the scene of a melee between Baton Rouge police and African-American activists. ("Protesters Against Police Violence Risk the Very Thing They’re Fighting," The Nation, Dec. 1, 2017)

Recent Shows

December

Week Ending Dec. 29, 2017

Alan Essig: Unpopular GOP Tax Code Revision Rewards Party Donors, Exacerbates Inequality
Victor Pickard: The Battle to Restore Net Neutrality is On
Beatrice Codianni and Brett Davidson: The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Calls for Decriminalization

Week Ending Dec. 22, 2017

Philip Weiss: With Declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital, Trump Angers World, Isolates U.S.
Jefferson Morley: Trump Floats Idea to Establish Private Spy Agency
April Taylor: U.S. Indigenous Communities Building Capacity to Confront Climate Change

Week Ending Dec. 15, 2017

Frank Clemente: GOP Tax Reform a Scam Harming Working Families and the U.S. Economy
Pedro Cruz: Climate Activists and Labor Must Work Together to Build a Clean Energy Future
Steven Renderos: National Coalition Gears Up to Oppose Trump FCC Net Neutrality Repeal

Week Ending Dec. 8, 2017

Alex Main: Fraud Could Deny Honduran Voters' Apparent Rejection of Unpopular Incumbent President
Barbara Maclean: A 'Women's Solidarity Network' Could Provide Support for Victims of Sexual Harassment
Bert Waters: U.S. Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Delivers Passionate Thanksgiving Message

Week Ending Dec. 1, 2017

Nancy Altman: Stealth GOP Tax Bill Provision Will Trigger Deep Cuts to Medicare
Art Tanderup: Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, But Activists Say the Fight is Far From Over
Craig Aaron: FCC Removes Ownership Rules Allowing Right-Wing Network Sinclair to Reach 72 Percent of U.S. Households

November

Week Ending Nov. 24, 2017

Shireen Al-Adeimi: U.S. Complicit with Saudi Arabia in 10,000 Yemen War Deaths
Wendell Potter: Trump Nominates Big Pharma CEO for Health and Human Services Secretary
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger: Tar Sands Oil Extraction Devastating Indigenous Communities

Week Ending Nov. 17, 2017

Gretchen Goldman: Trump Ban on EPA-Funded Scientists Serving on Agency Advisory Boards Endangers Public Health
Pia Gallegos: Independent Report Slams Democrats in Post-2016 Election Autopsy
Quentin Staggers: Homeless Activists March for Housing and Dignity in New Haven, Connecticut

Week Ending Nov. 10, 2017

Adele M. Stan: Mueller's First Indictments Stirs Fear in White House
Matthew Gardner: Trickle Down Hoax Central to GOP Tax Reform Plan
Yanique Joseph: The Answer to Haiti's Deforestation Problem is a National Forestry Corps

Week Ending Nov. 3, 2017

Julianne Tveten: Battle Against 'Fake News' Marginalizes Progressive Media Outlets
Leroy Westerling: Dramatic Increase in Western U.S. Wildfires Linked to Climate Change
Bill McKibben: The Desperate Science and Politics of Climate'

October

Week Ending Oct. 27, 2017

Jamal Abdi: Trump's Decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal Isolates and Weakens U.S.
Eagan Kemp: With Obamacare Subsidy Cut, Trump Will Raise Insurance Premiums, Reduce Coverage
Laurie Sobel: Trump Guts Obamacare Birth Control Mandate in Another Blow to Reproductive Rights

Week Ending Oct. 20, 2017

David Swanson: Trump Move to Decertify Iran Nuclear Agreement Would be a Clear Danger to U.S. and World
Ana Portnoy: Many Puerto Ricans Believe 'Second-Class Citizen' Status Contributed to Failed Federal Hurricane Response
Susan Dantino and Erica Roggeveen Byrne: Protests Greet Newly Dedicated Memorial Honoring Christopher Columbus in Connecticut

Week Ending Oct. 13, 2017

Eric LeCompte: Eric LeCompte: Urgent Call for Debt Relief After Hurricane Shatters Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
Tyson Slocum: Tyson Slocum: Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico Could Become a Model for Green-Energy Conversion
Frederick Clarkson: Frederick Clarkson: Roy Moore's Alabama Senate Primary Victory Boosts GOP Christian Extremists

Week Ending Oct. 6, 2017

Joseph Gerson: Reckless Trump-Kim Insult War Could Trigger Catastrophic Conflict
Chad Bolt: Protests Help Defeat Latest GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
Erick and Jason Ramos: Supporters of Couple Ordered Deported Stage Direct Action Protest, Win Brief Court Stay

September

Week Ending Sept. 29, 2017

Greg Palast: Trump's 'Election Integrity' Commission on Mission to Purge Millions of Non-GOP Voters
Drew Spencer Penrose: Supreme Court To Hear Pivotal Case on Partisan Gerrymandering
Eric Cruz and Joanne Lewis: DACA Supporters Express Solidarity with All Immigrants Targeted by Trump

Week Ending Sept. 22, 2017

Sarah Anderson: Trump-GOP Supported Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Produce Jobs
Norman Solomon: Democrats' Progressive and Wall-Street Friendly Wings Battle Over Party's Future
Reed Miller: LGBTQ Prison Support Group Black and Pink Works to Empower their Incarcerated Members

Week Ending Sept. 15, 2017

Carolina Borotolleto: Dreamers Mobilize to Save DACA and Resist Trump
Angel Candelario: Fight For $15 Labor Day Protests Demand Living Wage and a Union
Robert Buzzanco: Unchecked Development and Deregulation Exacerbated Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction in Texas

Week Ending Sept. 8, 2017

John H. Cushman Jr.: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Change Research
Bo Webb: Trump Suspends Funds for Health Impact Study of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Melinda St. Louis: NAFTA Renegotiation Must Prioritize Public Interest Over Corporate Power

Week Ending Sept. 1, 2017

Mark Hertsgaard: No Institutional Safeguards Stand Between Donald Trump and Nuclear War
Chip Gibbons: DOJ Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Website
John Jairo Lugo: Community Groups Join Forces to Make New Haven, CT a Leading U.S. Sanctuary City

August

Week Ending Aug. 25, 2017

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling: Witnessing White Supremacy's Violence and Hatred in Charlottesville
Naomi Ages: Federal Report on Climate Change Impact Leaked Before Trump Can Censor It
Linda Sarsour: Women’s March Organizer on Effective Resistance in the Age of Trump

Week Ending Aug. 18, 2017

Brenda Shum: Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over "Discrimination" Against White Applicants
Jesus Morales-Sanchez: Community Stands in Solidarity with Guatemalan Immigrant Under Deportation Order
Hilary O. Shelton: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory for Missouri for 'Jim Crow' State Law and Rise in Hate Crimes

Week Ending Aug. 11, 2017

Matthew Gardner: Trump Tax Cut Plan Would Benefit Wealthiest Americans
Masada Disenhouse: Climate Activists Say California's Cap and Trade Legislation is Gift to Big Oil
Josh Ruebner: Congressional Bill Would Criminalize Americans' Support for Israel Boycott

Week Ending Aug. 4, 2017

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
Steve Palumbi: Climate Change's Rising Ocean Temperatures Bleaching and Killing Earth's Vital Coral
George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for a More Egalitarian Society

July

Week Ending July 28, 2017

Tomas Lopez: Is Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a GOP Trojan Horse to Expand Voter Suppression?
Stan Heller: Israel and Palestinian Authority President Impose Extended Power Blackout on Gaza
Susan Rogers: As GOP Senate Repeal and Replace Bill Dies, Support for Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare System Grows

Week Ending July 21, 2017

Cassady Craighill: Protesters Demand G20 Nations Do More to Address Climate Change
Toni Harp: U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Resolutions Opposing Trump's Military Budget Increase
Annie Bird: DEA Lied About Deadly Honduran Drug Raid, Accountability Demanded

Week Ending July 14, 2017

Tim Shorrock: As Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula, Newly-Elected South Korean President Seeks Diplomatic Thaw with the North
Jeremy Brecher: Climate Activists Must Devise Global Strategy to Challenge Power of Fossil Fuel Industry
Alka Pradhan: Trump Nominates a Bush Administration Lawyer Who Authorized Torture

Week Ending July 7, 2017

Gerald Friedman: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Tens of Thousands to Die
Andrea Flynn: GOP Senate and House 'Repeal and Replace' HealthCare Bills Attack Women's Reproductive Rights
Mike Oxford: Disability Rights Activists Arrested in Direct Action Protest Opposing GOP's Deep Medicaid Cuts

June

Week Ending June 30, 2017

Morris Pearl: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Next Financial Disaster
Alden Meyer: Climate Alliance Tells World: Trump Doesn’t Speak for U.S. on Climate Change
Melissa Mays: Michigan State Officials Face Manslaughter Charges in Flint Water Crisis Deaths

Week Ending June 23, 2017

Mark Weisbrot: Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains
John Nichols: U.S. Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda Beyond Trump Resistance
Lee Stewart: Coalition Demands Senate Block All New Nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners

Week Ending June 16, 2017

Karen Orenstein: Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing U.S. from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies
Marc Mauer: Trump to Reinstate Drug War-Era Harsh Sentences in Federal Drug Cases
Cathy Kennedy: California Senate Takes First Step Toward State Single-Payer Universal Healthcare

Week Ending June 9, 2017

Alex Lawson: Trump Budget Poses Grave Threat to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Ron Fein: Evidence and Momentum Grows for Trump Impeachment
Cleve Jones: Lifelong Activist's Lessons Learned Fighting for Social Justice

Week Ending June 2, 2017

Marjorie Cohn: Evidence Mounts That Trump Attempted to Obstruct Justice In Russia Probe
Kathy Kelly: Saudi Arabia Intervention and U.S. Arms Fuel Escalating Carnage in Yemen's Civil War
Matt Remle: North American Indigenous Divestment Campaign Targets Banks Funding Tar Sands Crude Oil Pipelines

May

Week Ending May 26, 2017

Caroline Fredrickson: Trump Firing of FBI Director a Threat to U.S. Rule of Law
Jenny Flanagan: New Trump Election Integrity Commission a "Sham"
Kelsey Juliana: Children's Climate Change Lawsuit Moves Forward in Court

Week Ending May 19, 2017

Richard Wolff: French Election Highlights the Failure to Address Unemployment and Inequality
Sahar Francis: Palestinian Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Human Rights Violations in Israeli Prisons
Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Industry Supports GOP Attempt to Repeal Obamacare Protections

Week Ending May 12, 2017

Christine Ahn: Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea
Matthew Gardner: Trump "Tax Reform" Plan Revives Voodoo Economics
Aaron Greenberg: Graduate Student Hunger Strikers Pressure Yale to Start Union Contract Talks