economics
Trump’s ‘Supply-Side Jesus’ will make America great again (video)
Donald Trump’s economic policies, unveiled yesterday in Detroit, would erase whatever meager protections we have left against out-of-control corporations, let polluters ruin our air, spoil our water, and boil our endangered planet, kill Obamacare, give rich people a tax break and ruin whatever progress we have made since George W. Bush and his Wall Street cronies caused the Great Recession.
How and why can the GOP justify this deluded douchebag’s proposals? It’s the Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus, as explained by now-Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
As a Mexican court considers overturning a ban on GMO corn, farmers continue the uphill struggle to preserve traditional seed varieties.
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Mas…Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
From New Zealand: What exactly is ‘privilege’? (toon)
What exactly is “privilege?” On a Plate cartoonist Toby Morris breaks it down.
Study shows brown skin, tattoos will cost you money on Craigslist
A year-long study has shown that potential buyers were less likely to contact Craigslist sellers with brown skin and/or tattoos.
And when contact was made, according to the research, the prices offered for identical items were less.
Sociological Images has the story:
Mas…Study shows brown skin, tattoos will cost you money on Craigslist