Ben Carson Is As Wrong About Wage Hikes As He Was About the Pyramids

Ben Carson Is As Wrong About Wage Hikes As He Was About the Pyramids   Truman almost doubled the minimum wage. A year later, the unemployment rate was dramatically lower.   JOHN NICHOLS

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Why Isn’t Yale as Radical as Mizzou?   University of Missouri students pulled all the right levers for structural change. Why hasn’t Yale done the same?   DANIEL MOATTAR

The Missouri Tigers and the Hidden History of Black College Football Activists   The strike against racism by Mizzou football players was brave, historic, and profoundly significant—but it wasn’t unprecedented.   DAVE ZIRIN

Burma: Democracy with an Asterisk?   Burma’s Constitution awards a quarter of its Parliament to the military. But that’s not Aung San Suu Kyi’s biggest problem by a long shot.   JOHN FEFFER

Almost Half of All American Workers Make Less Than $15 an Hour   Three years after the first #FightFor15 strike, workers nationwide rallied again yesterday for living wages and union rights.   MICHELLE CHEN

Washington Appears to Reject the Opportunity to End the New Cold War With Russia   The US is rejecting Putin’s proposal to cooperate against the terrorist Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, while escalating NATO’s “exercises” against Russia in Eastern Europe.   STEPHEN F. COHEN

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