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[ad_1] On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at a track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was white, and black people were rooting for the stabber. The events that led to Anthony plunging a knife into Austin Metcalf’s heart are these: Driven for some reason to sit in a rival team’s tent, Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave by Metcalf. He refused, and tauntingly dared, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf pushed him, whereupon Anthony knifed him. For…

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[ad_1] Ernest Hemingway once wrote that there are two ways to go bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.” For Social Security, the “gradually” phase is coming to an end. According to the latest report from the trustees who oversee Social Security, the program will hit insolvency in late 2032—and, at that point, benefits will be cut by about 22 percent. That moment of crisis is no longer some distant problem to be worried about in the future. Senators elected later this year will be serving their terms when the “suddenly” arrives.  But there are two other ways in which to go…

[ad_1] The street battles against the abuses by ICE are the front lines of our struggle to prevent the consolidation of the police state. ICE US – by Mr. Fish. By Chris Hedgesin Newark, New JerseyScheerPost The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts and unleash on protesters outside the gates the sadism practiced on those incarcerated inside Delaney Hall. The worst is not the tear gas, the tasers, the pepper spray or the dozens of arrests. The worst is not the beatings and the riot shields, raised…

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[ad_1] Federal testing data released Wednesday shows that students are struggling, and experts said that means they may not be able to work in high-skill jobs. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Here it is — the 2nd installment of CJ’s already-epic mini-series, ‘The Mad Dream of Conquest,’ set in the Peloponnesian War in 5th-century BC Greece. Join CJ as he shares an overview of some of the events of the first half of the Peloponnesian War, including: Spartan-led Peloponnesian invasions of Attica (the countryside around Athens), which used the traditional Greek tactic of ‘ravaging’ farms in order to try to provoke the Athenians to confront them in a decisive hoplite battle Athens’ refusal to do so, as they followed Pericles’ strategy of being purely defensive on land while waging naval…

[ad_1] The Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand—which measures prices from the sellers’ perspective—for the previous 12 months hit its highest level in more than three years, according to a report published Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. PPI in May increased 1.1 percent, for an annual increase of 6.5 percent, the largest 12-month increase since November 2022. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox May’s PPI increases significantly topped economists’ expectations. Analysts polled by Reuters forecasted an increase of just 0.7 percent. The surge in prices was driven by increased energy costs, which have…

[ad_1] The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began filling with water on June 4 following maintenance work that President Donald Trump called a “big project.” In late May, Trump claimed that “the Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed,” adding that his administration was spending “$10 million, maybe, $12 million.” But that exaggerates the amount spent by previous administrations. We could find no record of any major work done during former President Joe Biden’s term, and the total spent for an overhaul of the pool during former…

[ad_1] Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in The Fountainhead would scheme to seize the global economy’s commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don’t just appear in cartoons or in Rand’s novels. Enter Thomas Piketty and company. In early June, Piketty—the French economist whose work on inequality has made him something of a rock star even while being serially challenged for methodological errors, data imputations, and cherry-picked baselines—and his large team unveiled what can only be described as a villainous…