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Proposed Additions to New York Times Style Guide to Improve Political Coverage 

The Times repeatedly abuses the English language in its political reporting. I decided it needs some additions to its style guide.

by Dan Froomkin - PressWatchers.org - 01-19-2024  

https://presswatchers.org/2024/01/my-proposed-additions-to-the-new-york-times-style-guide-to-improve-its-political-coverage/

MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR US (report)

Tesla, Ford, Netflix, and T-Mobile are among scores of profitable US firms that pay their top executives more than they pay in federal taxes. 

by Sarah Anderson, William Rice, Zachary Tashman - Inequality.org - 03-13-2024

https://otherwords.org/more-for-them-less-for-us/?emci=3c3adee3-f0e2-ee11-aaf0-002248223794&emdi=c50a4b10-fee2-ee11-aaf0-002248223794&ceid=4027164

Solar Energy & Battery Storage to Comprise 81% of 2024 New US Electricity Generation

by Paige Bennett - EcoWatch.com- 02-16-2024

https://www.ecowatch.com/new-electricity-generation-capacity-2024-solar-energy-battery-storage-eia.html

Crime is Way Down: 2023 Recorded Likely Largest Single-Year Drop in US Homicides 

by Andy Corbley - Good News Network - 03-11-2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/actually-crime-is-way-down-2023-recorded-likely-the-largest-single-year-drop-in-homicides-across-us/

Video: 3D Images of Over 13,000 Museum Specimens Now Free to Everyone

by Paul McClure - NewAtlas.com - 03-10-2024

bit.ly/48SLLna

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

by Jonathan Haidt _ Atlantic - 03-13-2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-terrible-costs-of-a-phone-based-childhood/ar-BB1jONI0

Climate Coach: Upgrading Your Home for $10

by Michael J. Coren - WashPost - 03-12-2024

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b59e9ade4e24119b1f260&s=65f06e068952706163d54fd5&linknum=4&linktot=58

Flow: We Really Are Unconscious When We're ‘In the Zone'

by Paul McClure - NewAtlas.com - 03-04-2024

bit.ly/4a1QfJG

Why Trust is the Thing Enemies of Democracies Always Target First

Trust is the single most important thing any government has. 

by Thom Hartmann - Hartmann Report - 03-15-2024

bit.ly/43sIKc3

Oil Fields Release Far More Methane Than Thought, Study Finds

In parts of New Mexico more than 9% of all natural gas produced goes into the atmosphere where it acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.

by Hiroko Tabuchi - NYTimes - 03-13-2024 [Free gift article]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/climate/oil-gas-industry-methane-release.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE0.LyDU.WwjJ2XoE1qZT&smid=url-share

ROB JOHNSON has been a player among the elites but he’s also a plain-speaking and passionate critic of an economic, financial, and political system that leaves too many behind. He previously served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee and was an Executive Producer of the Oscar-winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side. JOHNSON was a Management Director at Soros Fund Management, and is now President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), and host of the podcast Economics and Beyond.

Joe Biden Delivers Feisty State of the Union Address with Vision for Second Term

The president needed to appeal to voters as he and Donald Trump are neck and neck in the presidential contest

by Joan Greve - 03-08-2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/07/joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address

Fact-checking President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address

by Glenn Kessler - The Fact Checker/WashPost - 03-08-2024

https://wapo.st/3Tik41h [Free gift article]

IRS Funding More Than Pays for Itself

Biden’s infusion for agency produces a bounty from audits of rich tax cheats

by Michael Hiltzik - LATimes - 03-07-2024

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=89aeb735-f924-4be5-8ef6-7f0941b509fb

Militarized Funding in Biden Budget Totals Well Over $1 Trillion (and it will grow)

Militarism and its support systems (such as VA programs) = 69% of discretionary funds

by Lindsay Koshgarian - nationalpriorities.org - 03-11-2024

bit.ly/3Td0GTa

Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation

They Don't Use the Money to Innovate

by Lynn Parramore - ineteconomics.org - 03-14-2024

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/experts-negotiating-big-pharmas-prices-wont-stifle-innovation-they-dont-use-the-money-to-innovate

Bernie Sanders’s Private Warning to Biden about the 2024 Campaign

The Vermont senator and onetime presidential hopeful has urged the White House to articulate a clearer contrast with the GOP

by Jeff Stein WashPost - March 6 2024

https://wapo.st/3Vsy1MC [Free gift article]

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