Critics say Gwen Stefani continues a pattern of cultural appropriation with her newest “Slow Clap” video. Viewers believe her obsession with appropriating other cultures dates back to the 1990s.
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Gwen Stefani’s music sparks another cultural appropriation conversation
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Would a billionaire tax help or hurt the American economy?
Mindful of surging economic inequality during the pandemic, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren proposed a new billionaire tax. But would that billionaire tax help or hurt the American economy in the long run?
If you’d like to dig deeper into primary sources referenced in this report:
- Here’s the letter from Cal-Berkeley economists to Sen. Warren
- Here’s former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’ opinion piece
- Here’s the wealth tax evaluation from The Tax Foundation, a group supported by prominent conservative donors
- Here’s the wealth tax evaluation from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Budget Model
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America’s Postal Service: Still needed to medicate, vote and pay bills
America’s Postmaster General Louis Dejoy introduced a new plan to reform the United States Postal Service and critics have called for privatization. The local mailman’s employer has managed to lose more than $90 billion since 2006.
Even today, millions of Americans count on the Postal Service to receive prescription medication, vote and pay bills. If deliveries stopped tomorrow, millions of prescriptions–some of them life-saving–would go undelivered. And some municipalities are so small that voting by mail is residents’ only option.
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Can we eradicate the novel coronavirus? Here’s what American doctors say.
›The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 550,000 Americans to date. Doctors say we may not be able to eradicate the novel coronavirus from our planet.
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What do we know about universal basic income in America?
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang popularized the concept of universal basic income in America during his presidential campaign. Supporters say it could help struggling low-wage families, while skeptics believe it expands the welfare state too far.