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June 29, 2019

OPINION: I fact checked Naomi Wolf’s new book on gay rights – the mockery she has faced for one error disguises the real outrage we should feel

For a month, critics have attacked Naomi Wolf’s new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, which explores how 19th-century UK laws persecuted homosexuality around the world and fuelled the gay rights movement. A BBC radio host pointed out on 21 May that the phrase “death recorded” did …

June 28, 2019

The Week In Congress: Dreamers, Declaring War, and Reuniting Korean-American Families

Published June 4, 2019 Here’s a video recap of the happenings in Congress last week (May 27-31, 2019). First up, two bills, The American Promise Act of 2019 and The Dream Act of 2019 introduced by Rep. Velasquez (D-NY) and Rep. Roybal-Allard (D-CA) respectively, were designed to carve a path to …

June 15, 2019

Bernie Sanders Proposes New Economic Bill of Rights

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a full-throated defense of democratic socialism in his June 12 speech at George Washington University. Sanders quoted FDR’s 1944 State of the Unionaddress: “We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.” Sanders, like FDR, proposed an …

June 7, 2019

Trump’s New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People

Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. persons. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will no longer allow the popular “people-to-people” educational travel and they will deny licenses to cruise ships, the most common way people visit Cuba. “While this further …

June 7, 2019

The Precarious Fate of Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court doesn’t like to overturn its past decisions. But there’s a way to get around Roe v. Wade without tossing it out completely. In this video we delve into how the Supreme Court makes decisions, the concept of stare decisis, and how other post-Roe cases have created vulnerabilities …

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