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Corporate profits are booming, but average wages haven't budged over the past year. The U.S. economy has run this way for decades, partly because of a fundamental change in business practices dating back to the 1980s. On Wednesday I'm introducing legislation to fix it.American corporations exist only because the American people grant them charters. Those charters confer valuable privileges -- such as limited legal liability for their owners -- that enable businesses to turn a profit. What do Americans get in return? What are the obligations of corporate citizenship in the U.S.?Elizabeth Warren

 

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This article is meant to provide a relatively comprehensive assessment of Klobuchar’s strengths and weaknesses — rather than being either a “devil’s advocate” argument or a best-case scenario. It’s informed by conversations with Klobuchar’s campaign as well as with unaffiliated Democrats, but the opinions and analysis are my own. As you’ll see, I think Klobuchar’s upsides outweigh her downsides, but there’s plenty of material in both columns.Nate Silver

Texas - Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and several El Paso elected officials held a news conference Monday to ask President Donald Trump "to correct the record on his misleading State of the Union remarks about El Paso, and to apologize to El Pasoans for misrepresenting their hometown."

During his State of the Union address last week, President Trump claimed El Paso became one of the safest cities in America after the installation of a border barrier. Trump's comment ignited a firestorm of criticism from local leaders. "The border city of El Paso, Texas used to have extremely high rates of violent crime - one of the highest in the country - and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities," Trump said. "Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities."KVIA

About a mile down the road, several thousand demonstrators gathered at a high school carrying American flags, rainbow banners, “Beto for President” flags, and flags for Mexico and Texas. There were also signs decrying Trump and his border wall — such as “Trump made America hate again” — and chants from the crowd that included “Make tacos, not walls!”

The President is coming to El Paso Monday. He will promise a wall and will repeat his lies about the dangers that immigrants pose. With El Paso as the backdrop, he will claim that this city of immigrants was dangerous before a border fence was built here in 2008.Beto

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes

judgement on and criticizes something after the event

(theOxford Dictionary).We take a look at the Sunday talk

shows and much more WBRN Radio . bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una

persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el

Diccionario Oxford).Echamos un vistazo a los programas

dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

The past week's political events that help shape American politics. Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que

ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation http://www.stetsonkennedy.com

Friday Java the political magazine with a full cup of Coffee

and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos

números de las encuestas entre las recarga

News and Guts from Dan Rather https://www.newsandgutsmedia.com

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A third scandal to hit the Democratic administration of Virginia sent the Capitol reeling on Wednesday.

Attorney General Mark Herring, in a statement he issued late in the morning, said he dressed in "brown makeup" and a wig to imitate rappers as a 19-year-old at the University of Virginia.

Herring is next in line to become governor if both Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax step down. Northam is facing calls to resign over a photo on his medical school yearbook page showing men in a Ku Klux Klan robe and blackface, and Fairfax has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. If all three resign, Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox would be next in line for the Governor's Mansion.pilotonline.com

The first and foremost reason I was interested is that I thought Trump might signal his strategy on the border wall — e.g. whether he was willing to shut down the government again, or declare a national emergency, or whatever else. But he didn’t really do that. It’s not even clear that he has his strategy figured out. Now, arguably, the lack of a threat to shut down the government or to declare an emergency is itself newsworthy, a pulling back from the brink if you will, but there was also enough rhetoric about the importance of the wall and how dangerous illegal immigration is that I’m not sure I’d give too much credence to that theory. Nate Silver

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes

judgement on and criticizes something after the event

(theOxford Dictionary).We take a look at the Sunday talk

shows and much more WBRN Radio . bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una

persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el

Diccionario Oxford).Echamos un vistazo a los programas

dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

The past week's political events that help shape American

politics. Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que

ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation http://www.stetsonkennedy.com