When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.

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Robert Reich

Former NFL running back Doug Martin was struggling with his mental health when he entered a neighbor’s home in Oakland, where he then died in police custody Saturday, his family said Monday.

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a hoodie is smiling and says `` cousin what 's up ? ''

Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws people hate and block ones they want.

AFRICAN history does not begin with slavery – and neither does the ancestry of its people and their descendants.

After a weak jobs report on Friday, Trump responded by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But as Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells Ali Velshi, ignoring bad numbers doesn’t make the problem go away. Instead, it’s more “like driving a car with no odometer,” Stiglitz says. He shares an anecdote from his time on the Council of Economic Advisers, advising President Bill Clinton. Stiglitz explains that Clinton once attempted to influence his analysis, to which Stiglitz says he replied “the preservation of the independence of the statistical agencies is of first order importance, and you, Mr. President, cannot change this.” Clinton accepted this, but Trump, Stiglitz says, does not. Because of Trump’s political pressure on independent economic agencies like the BLS and the Federal Reserve, Stiglitz warns, “confidence in the US dollar and confidence in the US economy will erode.”