News & Views | 'Very Biblical to Enforce the Law': How White House Defends Ripping Children From Parents

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Staffers at the Washington Post Think Decent Wages and Benefits Would Be Good Start](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii by Jake Johnson, staff writer Amazon CEO, Washington Post owner, and world's richest man Jeff Bezos is notorious for raking in enormous profits on the back of his overstrained and dramatically undercompensated workforce—all the while doing everything he can to avoid paying taxes. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['National Disgrace': Poverty Wages Make Affordable Housing a Myth for Low-Income Americans](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii by Julia Conley, staff writer A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) shows that "affordable housing" is virtually nonexistent—and that in many states, even efforts to institute a minimum wage of $15 per hour would still leave many American workers struggling to find suitable housing that they could easily afford. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Utterly Terrifying': Study Affirms Feedback Loop Fears as Surging Antarctica Ice Loss Tripled in Last Five Years](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) [bye, ice](1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Scientists are expressing alarm over "utterly terrifying" new findings from NASA and the European Space Agency that Antarctica has lost about 3 trillion tons of ice since 1992, and in the past five years—as the atmospheric and ocean temperatures have continued to climb amid ongoing reliance on fossil fuels—ice losses have tripled. --------------------------------------------------------------- [For 'Persistently Illegal Conduct,' New York AG's Lawsuit Demands Trump Foundation Be Shuttered](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii by Julia Conley, staff writer A two-year investigation into President Donald Trump's charity by New York State culminated on Thursday in a lawsuit alleging that the president and his family violated campaign finance laws and tax regulations, and illegally coordinated with Trump's 2016 campaign to benefit his presidential run. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Children's Detention Center Tour Reveals Trump Mural That Would Look 'In Place In a Banana Republic'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii by Julia Conley, staff writer Children who are taken to the former Walmart which now serves as a detention center for young immigrants in Brownsville, Texas, are greeted by a mural of the man responsible for their incarceration—President Donald Trump. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) [] [] Views... [] [A Twenty-First-Century History of Greed](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) ["The greed of those geopolitical dreamers will intersect with the greed of an ever wealthier, ever more gilded 1%, of the billionaires who were preparing to swallow whole the political system of that last superpower and grab so much of the wealth of the planet, leaving so little for others."(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) by Tom Engelhardt American wars and self-decline. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Everybody, Especially Congressional Democrats, Take a Deep Breath and Follow the President's Lead (President Moon's, Not Trump's)](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) ["One would never know it from the mainstream US media, but the president who matters most in this process is not Trump, it’s South Korea’s Moon Jae-in." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) by Kevin Martin South Korea’s Moon Jae-in has been brilliant in pursuing peace and diplomacy with both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in just over a year in office. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's North Korea Summit Reveals Democratic Party Fault Lines](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) 1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Who wouldn’t cheer avoiding nuclear war? --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Constitution and the Lawmen are Coming for Trump—He Laughs!](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) ["The Mueller team is not going away." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) by Ralph Nader A different kind of law is closing in on the cheating Donald. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Just How Rich are the Ultra Rich?](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) ["Four in ten Americans can’t come up with $400 in an emergency." (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) by Josh Hoxie Some rich people fly first class to fancy hotels. Others fly private jets to private islands. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Call It ‘Unileaderism’: Trump’s Foreign Policy of One](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Af0rKLRJii) ["Trump treats world affairs like it’s an elementary school club." 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