Michael Mechanic
Senior Editor at Mother Jones
@MotherJones editor, musician, dad & author of Jackpot, a must-read book about the insanity of wealth in America, from @simonschuster.
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1 week ago |
lgbtqnation.com | Michael Mechanic
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. One particularly surreal aspect of Donald Trump threatening the tax-exempt status of Harvard, one of the nation’s oldest and foremost educational institutions—and excluding it from federal research funding for refusing to heed the administration’s oversight demands—is the fact that even some of the nation’s most hateful and antidemocratic entities qualify as tax-exempt charities.
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1 week ago |
motherjones.com | Michael Mechanic
One particularly surreal aspect of Donald Trump threatening the tax-exempt status of Harvard, one of the nation’s oldest and foremost educational institutions—and excluding it from federal research funding for refusing to heed the administration’s oversight demands—is the fact that even some of the nation’s most hateful and antidemocratic entities qualify as tax-exempt charities.
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1 week ago |
motherjones.com | Michael Mechanic
For kids like me, who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, comics were a big deal. Our media landscape otherwise consisted mainly of books and records, commercial radio, and, in my family’s case, a small black-and-white TV with a coat hanger antenna that got four staticky channels. So we periodically raided our piggy banks and headed to the Stop-N-Go for candy and comics. My favorite was Richie Rich. Richie was wildly popular, a brave and generous little fellow with unfathomably wealthy parents.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Michael Mechanic
The Internal Revenue Service, as the New York Times reported this week, is mulling Donald Trump’s request to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University after Harvard refused to cave in to the president’s demands for a sweeping right-wing overhaul.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Michael Mechanic
America is witnessing an unprecedented series of attacks on higher education that commenced well before Donald Trump was re-elected, amid the contentious protests that followed Hamas’ attacks on Israel and Israel’s ruthless (and ongoing) retaliation on Gaza and its inhabitants. But Trump, as president, has taken matters much further.
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