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Why Sandbagging Public Servants Invites Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

April 19, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Workers who issue licenses and permits for the city of Dallas fought back in 2024 when officials moved them into a building that failed to meet the very same safety requirements they enforce at dozens of other office towers.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: education, GOP/Right Wing, Health care, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics

What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?

April 6, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes. Lacking traditional family dynasties, they must also contend with an unpredictable alliance with Trump.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, Europe/Ukraine, GOP/Right Wing, History, Media, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Social Benefits, Tech, Time-Sensitive, Trump, War

How News Reporters Are Being Deceived by Fake Groups of ‘Moms’ and ‘Parents’ Attacking Public Schools

March 29, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: education, GOP/Right Wing, Media, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Teachers

Trump’s Bid to Transform International Relations May Succeed

March 29, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Eliminating bureaucracy and abandoning the world order that the U.S. helped build may allow Trump to recalibrate foreign policy, at the cost of global stability.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Africa, Asia/China, Central America/El Salvador, Central America/Honduras, Central America/Nicaragua, Central America/Panama, Democratic Party, economy, europe, Europe/Russia, Europe/Ukraine, GOP/Right Wing, Human Rights, immigration, Media, Middle East/Iran, news, North America/Cuba, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, South America/Venezuela, Time-Sensitive, Trade, Trump

How Musk Sold Out America’s Veterans

March 29, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

The VA is just one of Musk’s targets, and his attacks on the department come at a time when more and more veterans require care because of ailments contracted in Vietnam, Iraq, and other combat zones.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia/Vietnam, Democratic Party, economy, GOP/Right Wing, Health care, Middle East/Iraq, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Trump, War

First, They Came for the Venezuelans

March 29, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens, or native-born citizens—are safe.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia, Central America/El Salvador, Democratic Party, europe, Europe/Germany, Europe/United Kingdom, GOP/Right Wing, Human Rights, immigration, Middle East/Israel, Middle East/Palestine, news, North America/Canada, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, South America/Venezuela, Time-Sensitive, Trump

A Reformist Program on Immigration (or What Harris Might Have Said)

December 1, 2024 By Richard Wolff

The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: 1, 2, 3, Democratic Party, economy, GOP/Right Wing, immigration, Labor, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections

11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live by

October 19, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Advice learned through 50 years of progressive media activism.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, book, Climate Change, Criminal Justice, Democratic Party, environment, GOP/Right Wing, History, Media, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Television, Trump, War, Women’s Rights

The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements

September 14, 2024 By Egberto Willies

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social movements built on malignant rather than goodwill impulses.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia, Asia/China, Asia/India, Asia/Vietnam, Climate Change, economy, Europe/France, Europe/Germany, Europe/Greece, Europe/Hungary, Europe/Italy, Europe/Russia, Europe/United Kingdom, GOP/Right Wing, History, identity politics, immigration, Labor, Middle East, Middle East/Iraq, Middle East/Turkey, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Trump, War, Women’s Rights

Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S.

September 4, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing impact will affect policies beyond the conflict in the Middle East.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: AbandonBiden, biden, Democratic Party, economy, GOP/Right Wing, Middle East/Israel, Middle East/Palestine, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Trump, War

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