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Disappointment and ‘depression’: Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish

Disappointment and ‘depression’: Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish

Politico reports: Joe Biden’s campaign planned to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash. Instead, his allies are bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports showed Trump outraising Biden in back-to-back months, hauling in huge sums after his 34 felony convictions and erasing Biden’s longstanding financial edge. Democrats in recent days largely downplayed Trump’s new financial lead in the same way Trump’s allies had when Biden was running ahead in the money…

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Ilan Pappé: The Israel lobby is real. This is how it works

Ilan Pappé: The Israel lobby is real. This is how it works

  If you mention the Israel lobby in the mainstream media then, more often than not, you’ll face accusations of antisemitism. There are of course people who talk about the Israel lobby in antisemitic terms, but that doesn’t undermine the fact that it exists, and has existed for well over a century. This week’s guest is Israeli historian and author Ilan Pappé. His new book details the origins of zionism and the struggles against it throughout the 19th and 20th…

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Rev. William Barber: Poor & low-wage Americans are the real 2024 swing voters

Rev. William Barber: Poor & low-wage Americans are the real 2024 swing voters

  Dr. Rev. William J Barber II argues that the issue of poverty in America is often racialized and marginalized as a Black issue, ignoring millions of impoverished white people. In his new book, the esteemed civil rights campaigner aims to expose myths about race and class in order to reconstruct American democracy. He joins the show to discuss the causes of poverty and the policies that can address it.

Trump keeps flip-flopping his policy positions after meeting with rich people

Trump keeps flip-flopping his policy positions after meeting with rich people

Politico reports: Donald Trump privately hinted at a shift in immigration policy at a Business Roundtable meeting last week. He told the group “we need brilliant people” in this country, according to one of the attendees, who was granted anonymity to describe a private meeting. And when he talked about finding ways to keep American-educated talent at home, some top CEOs, like Apple’s Tim Cook, were seen nodding their heads. The public move came a week later: On “The All-In…

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Sotomayor issues dire warning on Supreme Court ruling on noncitizens

Sotomayor issues dire warning on Supreme Court ruling on noncitizens

The New Republic reports: In a ruling delivered Friday, the Supreme Court decided 6–3 that U.S. citizens have no constitutional interest in their noncitizen spouses being able to enter the United States—despite the fact that a married person has an inherent interest in their spouse being able to live in the same country as they do. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned the ruling is an obvious sign the court will seek to overturn protections for marriage equality next. Sotomayor…

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Robert Reich: 60 years ago today, the Klan murdered my protector

Robert Reich: 60 years ago today, the Klan murdered my protector

Robert Reich writes: I’ve shared some of this with you, but today marks 60 years since it happened — when the Klan murdered my protector. I was always the shortest kid in school, which made me an easy target for bullies. To protect myself, I got into the habit of befriending older boys who’d watch my back. One summer when I was around 8 years old, while visiting my maternal grandmother at her cabin in the Adirondack Mountains, I found…

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America’s top export may be anxiety

America’s top export may be anxiety

Derek Thompson writes: The argument that smartphones and social media are contributing to the rise in teen mental distress is strong. A number of observational and experimental studies show that teen anxiety started rising just as smartphones, social media, and front-facing cameras contributed to a wave of negative emotionality that seems to be sweeping the world. But I have one small reason to question the strongest version of the smartphone thesis. You can find a summary of it on page…

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How a ‘dominance’ mindset encourages leaders to put others at risk

How a ‘dominance’ mindset encourages leaders to put others at risk

Hemant Kakkar and Garrett L Brady write: In the aftermath of the 2008 financial debacle, a term that was once confined to economic textbooks found its way into the public discourse: ‘moral hazard’. The term describes the inclination toward risky decision-making in circumstances where someone else – not the decision-maker – bears most of the costs. In the case of the financial crash, taxpayers ended up involuntarily bankrolling a bailout of the institutions whose reckless gambles precipitated the catastrophe. It’s…

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Smotrich describes ‘mega-dramatic’ government bid for Israel to cement control of West Bank

Smotrich describes ‘mega-dramatic’ government bid for Israel to cement control of West Bank

The New York Times reports: An influential member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition told settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that the government is engaged in a stealthy effort to irreversibly change the way the territory is governed, to cement Israel’s control over it without being accused of formally annexing it. In a taped recording of the speech, the official, Bezalel Smotrich, can be heard suggesting at a private event earlier this month that the goal was to prevent…

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Israel unprepared for full-blown war with Hezbollah — senior electricity official

Israel unprepared for full-blown war with Hezbollah — senior electricity official

The Times of Israel reports: Israel is not prepared for the damage its electricity infrastructure would sustain if a full-scale war were to break out with Hezbollah, the head of the company responsible for planning the country’s electrical systems warned on Thursday, though he later cast that remark as “irresponsible.” “We are not in a good situation, and we are not prepared for a real war. We are living in a fantasy,” said Shaul Goldstein, who leads Israel’s Independent System…

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The Supreme Court walks back Clarence Thomas’ guns extremism

The Supreme Court walks back Clarence Thomas’ guns extremism

Mark Joseph Stern writes: The Supreme Court upheld a federal law disarming domestic abusers on Friday, significantly narrowing a radical 2022 precedent in the process. Its 8–1 ruling in U.S. v. Rahimi is a major victory for gun safety laws, a much-needed reprieve after two years of unceasing hostility from the federal judiciary. Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion walked back maximalist rhetoric—recklessly injected into the law by Justice Clarence Thomas—that had imperiled virtually every modern regulation limiting access to firearms. Thomas…

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Why Democrats think Biden’s problem is Biden

Why Democrats think Biden’s problem is Biden

Politico reports: Democrats keep doing surprisingly well in special elections. The party’s most vulnerable Senate incumbents are running ahead of their rivals in key battleground states. One of Democrats’ signature issues — reproductive rights — has repeatedly proved a winning message. And yet Joe Biden is struggling to pull even with Donald Trump. It’s another ominous sign for the president: Even as other Democrats are running strong, the party’s down-ballot successes aren’t translating into momentum at the top of the…

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Open the door wider for refugees

Open the door wider for refugees

Ilhan Omar writes: Of the many titles I hold—congresswoman, mother, sister, organizer—one represents a part of my identity that I hold particularly close to my heart: refugee. People frequently come up to me and share their own refugee stories. We immediately ask each other how long it has been since arriving in the United States. In my case, it’s been 29 years since my family and I were given a golden ticket to start a new life in America as…

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How a network of nonprofits enriches fundraisers while spending almost nothing on its stated causes

How a network of nonprofits enriches fundraisers while spending almost nothing on its stated causes

By Ellis Simani This story was originally published by ProPublica. In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission joined regulators in four states to sue four men behind a notorious telemarketing company called Outreach Calling. The FTC alleged that the company, which it described as a “sprawling fundraising operation,” had raised millions on the promise of helping the needy — cancer patients, veterans, firefighters — but instead used the money to line its pockets. The case was meant to put fundraisers…

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