Month: November 2019

Ben Affleck has apologized to former One Tree Hill star and MTV correspondent Hilarie Burton for groping her during an MTV TRL appearance in 2001. “I acted inappropriately toward Ms. Burton and I sincerely apologize,” Affleck wrote on Twitter. On Tuesday, in the wake of Affleck’s statement about the sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, […]

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As President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress intensify their push for massive corporate tax cuts that critics have said would encourage businesses to offshore profits and jobs, a new report published Tuesday by U.S. PIRG and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that 73 percent of companies on the Fortune 500 […]

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An Open Letter to the University of Michigan on Palestine – My colleague John Cheney-Lippold in the American Culture Department of the University of Michigan has been disciplined by the Colleges of Letters, Sciences and Arts for declining to write a recommendation letter for a student to do summer study at Tel Aviv University. He […]

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“America is now aiding and abetting the use of child soldiers.” That was how Ari Rabin-Havt, deputy policy director for U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), responded to a New York Times report on Friday detailing Saudi Arabia’s use of Sudanese child soldiers as young as 14 years old to wage its vicious assault on Yemen, […]

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