OPINION: Indiana is leading the way to environmental Armageddon
One in three Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer.
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One in three Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer.
Servers are over two times more likely to live below the poverty line than other workers, earning a median hourly wage of $10.11 including tips. Women, Black and Latinx servers earn upwards of 50 cents less per hour.
The Indiana Senate passed Senate Bill 389 in early February. The bill originally removed protections for more than 80% of Indiana’s wetlands. It now heads to Gov. Eric Holcomb's desk in an amended form, but the message remains the same: Lawmakers continue to perpetuate a false dichotomy between environmental sustainability and economic prosperity.
Pfizer, Moderna Therapeutics and Johnson & Johnson racked in a cumulative $125.3 billion in revenue during 2020. All three firms experienced a surge in revenue as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, with Moderna’s total revenue increasing 13 times compared to the year prior.
The Indiana Senate voted to eliminate protections for state-regulated wetlands last week. Senate Bill 389 passed with a vote of 29-19. The bill is currently in the House awaiting further consideration.
Indiana State Sen. J.D. Ford introduced Senate bill 32 last week calling for a ban on the use of conversion therapy for minors. Ford is recognized as Indiana’s first openly gay state legislator and spoke of the bill as a “lifesaving issue.” However, the bill will most likely face stiff opposition from the Republican supermajority in the Statehouse.
“We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did,” John Erlichman, a key adviser to former President Richard Nixon, confessed in 1994.
Although it feels like a pipe dream, think back to the last time you stepped onto an airplane. You likely flew American, Delta, Southwest or United — given the four airlines together control roughly two-thirds of the United States market. But the airline you chose is not all that relevant. The global passenger aircraft market is controlled exclusively by Boeing and Airbus. Some airlines such as Southwest rely primarily on Boeing and others, including Delta, on Airbus.
The 2020 election revealed the direness of prioritizing class solidarity above political affiliation. We have become complacent towards an antiquated, oligarchic two-party system fueled by indefinite political hostility. The very backbone of our political system relies upon constant feuds among the lower and middle classes.
The 2020 presidential election brought the highest level of voter turnout in 120 years, yet Election Day proved to be anything but the blowout Democrats expected.
Indiana’s 5th Congressional District solidified its status as a Republican stronghold of 27 years. Over the decades, IN-05 found itself caught up in national conspiracies ranging from deep ties to pharmaceutical interests to foreign assets. There is little reason to believe Victoria Spartz’s victory will be anything but a continuation of the past.
The United States recorded a total of 981,246 cases of COVID-19 by the end of April. The country could have seen upwards of 35 million cases without shelter-in-place orders, public school closures, bans on large social gatherings or closures of entertainment-related businesses.
Last week President Donald Trump refused to explicitly condemn the Proud Boys during the presidential debate, a position the president backtracked on two days later. The Nation obtained an FBI intelligence report the same day warning of a potential “flashpoint” for white supremacist violence between now and the presidential inauguration in January. The findings focus on Dallas, but IU’s complacency raises concern about its preparedness to handle a similar violent extremist threat.
President Donald Trump was admitted to the Walter Reed Medical Center Friday following recommendations from his physician, Dr. Sean Conley. This development came just 24 hours after the president announced both himself and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19.
I have never witnessed such an unintelligible debate, and I participated in high school debate for three years.
A recent whistleblower complaint alleged immigrant detainees underwent hysterectomies, a kind of sterilization where the uterus is removed, without consent while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a private detention center in Georgia. Dawn Wooten, a nurse at the facility, filed the complaint which also addressed fabricated detainee medical records and deplorable COVID-19 procedures. ICE’s abhorrent misconduct is evidence the eugenics movement is still brewing in the United States.
Supporters of the 2020 Democratic ticket came to a consensus regarding the general election — there is no room for “moral high ground." A third-party vote is a vote for Trump, they might say.