We need a new language for talking about poverty. “Nobody who works should be poor,” we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.

doing the laundry, arranging dentist appointments, counseling the children about sex, studying their deep mysteries to extract their gifts and troubles.

If all states instated Medicaid work requirements similar to that of Arkansas, as many as four million Americans could lose their health insurance.

In the 1980s, conservatives wanted to attach work requirements to food stamps. In the 1990s, they wanted to impose work requirements on subsidized-housing programs.

nearly a third of the American work force — earn less than $12 an hour, and almost none of their employers offer health insurance.

Since 1973, American productivity has increased by 77 percent, while hourly pay has grown by only 12 percent. If the federal minimum wage tracked productivity, it would be more than $20 an hour, not today’s poverty wage of $7.25.

“working homeless,” a now-necessary phrase in today’s low-wage/high-rent society

“Y’all don’t know how tired Mommy is.”

When things got too loud or one of her grandchildren gave her lip, she would ask Vanessa to take her children somewhere else.

“So we, as a people, will keep fighting, whether it’s peaceful or scary, until we reach justice by whatever means necessary.”

but primarily because I’d been taught that when ordinary people, especially young people, try to do activism, they look stupid.

There was always reverence for “real” activists, of course — the heroes of the civil rights movement

I was on the side of the hippies, even the Gap smashers probably. I was certainly not on the side of the cops. At least I knew that much.

Even if Trump disappeared tomorrow, we would still live in a country where the WB_wombat_top 1 percent own more than the bottom 90 percent — and where on any given night more than 100,000 children are homeless.

the 400 richest American households paid a lower average tax rate than any other income group, according to new research by two economists.

If we avoid talking about our values about race and the experiences of marginalized people, strangers on the internet will be happy to share theirs.

They “go to these places and they promise them paradise,” he says.

Many kids feel out of place, frustrated and misunderstood, and are vulnerable to the idea that someone else is responsible for their discontent.

We want to raise them to be the kind of men

He was shocked and embarrassed when I pointed out the actual message: that it would have been better if the Holocaust had continued.

“triggered.”

The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes.

People keep asking: Is it too late?

I remember sitting with Dr. Hansen in his NASA office the week he retired, in 2013, wondering along with him when the public revolt over the climate crisis would finally begin.

to prevent more death and destruction.

The scientists knew long ago, and told us, that the sea would invade the coasts.

Today, we act surprised as the climate emergency descends upon us in all its ferocity.

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

all men are created equal.

conceived in Liberty

Maybe you will only be rich, as opposed to superrich. But you’ll be O.K.

the best preschools, the best high schools and the best colleges.

The problems of the affluent are not systemic. They are self-inflicted.

The idea of meritocracy has long been used by the rich for self-justification. Now it is becoming fuel for their self-pity.

“Instead, the rich and the rest are entangled in a single shared and mutually destructive economic and social logic.”

The whining of the wealthy is getting louder.

But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger.

Not just with words, but with deeds –

But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America

potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.

I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people

to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.

launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy.

As of this morning, this was the count:

The first polls since the start of the inquiry have found that public support for impeachment is growing.

s, saying today that he wanted to “interview” him, a

s, saying today that he wanted to “interview” him, a

buse of power

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will hold a news conference Wednesday to outline the immediate steps Democrats plan to take during the House’s two-week break, which lasts until Oct. 15.

Lawmakers accused Mr. Pompeo of “intimidating department witnesses in order to protect himself and the president,”

“an act of intimidation”

“It’s a dying art, making people laugh at themselves,”

“I’m a nice guy,” Mr. Angle said, dripping in a wet suit after his shift. “I’m a Methodist Christian outside the tank. I’m one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet.”

“People need to be able to take a joke, and I think the dunk tank sort of exemplifies that.”

The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades.

Dunk tank clowns, Mr. Simmons said, are fading away in a world where Americans are beginning to believe that cracking jokes about people’s skin color, size, poverty or intelligence is maybe not a good thing.

anachronism

He makes a living by shouting insults at passers-by at America’s small-town fairgrounds.