SUMMARY: The video, below, comes from a 2004 Bill Moyers interview with then Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren. The two were discussing efforts by Wall Street lenders to pressure lawmakers into passing stringent laws making it more difficult for individuals to file bankruptcy. In the course of the interview, Warren told a story contrasting how First […]
“Whites Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested:” Data Analysis Casts the War on Drugs in a Whole New Light1 “Institutional Racism” is defined as “racism perpetrated by government entities such as schools, the courts or the military. Unlike the racism perpetrated by individuals, institutional racism has the power to negatively affect the bulk of people […]
Tensions heat up as Texas escalates its war on women. State health department agents raided Planned Parenthood agencies in four Texas cities last Thursday in the latest battle over Medicaid funding for the organization. Agents from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission raided facilities in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Brownsville. The purpose of […]
Trey Gowdy made a startling and damning admission to reporters questioning him after Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Speaking with reporters after Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s eleven-hour testimony, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was was stumped when asked what new information was gathered. “Uh,” he said. “I think some of Jimmy […]
President Obama compared Republicans to Grumpy Cat on Friday, adding that “they’ve constructed this entire separate reality like the Twilight Zone.” The comments were part of an effort “to portray his party’s presidential aspirants as optimistic and civil, while accusing the GOP’s presidential candidates of being glum and divisive.“ Speaking to about 500 supporters at […]