Longest-Serving US Congressman Wants to Abolish the Senate
Bush: Icon of WASP Establishment, and Third World Repression ; Harvard Economist on Ranked-Choice Voting ...and More Picks
George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment — and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World (Reader Steve)
From the Nation: “Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted, depicting it as heroism.”
It’s Official: DC Council Has repealed Initiative 77, Which Would Have Raised Pay for Tipped Workers (Jimmy)
The author writes, “After hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign spending, tens of thousands of voters heading to the polls and hundreds of angry calls and emails to lawmakers, a contentious fight over restaurant workers’ pay in the nation’s capital ended with a quick vote by the DC Council.”
Schwarzenegger Would Time Travel to Terminate Fossil Fuels (Reader Steve)
The author writes, “Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wishes he could travel back in time like the cyborg he played in ‘The Terminator’ so he could stop fossil fuels from being used.”
Five Reasons Ranked-Choice Voting Will Improve American Democracy (Jimmy)
From the Boston Globe: “Harvard economist Eric Maskin says the system, just used in Maine, doesn’t faze voters, eliminates the problem of ‘spoiler’ candidates, and better reflects what voters want.”
