On Our "Virtual Route 99" Around The World (Special Month-End Edition)
For this final edition, our team chose thoughts on the Ukraine War, the Russian State Duma Elections, Yaboklo being banned "supposedly" for copyright infringement, as Steve Rosenberg chats with Dmitry Muratov: Afghanistan after five years of Taliban Rule, along with thoughts from the Institute of Policy Studies: Who profits off policies that harm our communities, and who bears the costs? Right now, devastating policy choices are fueling an affordability crisis that is pushing millions of American families into increasingly precarious conditions. A new analysis from Karen Dolan and IPS Henry A. Wallace Fellow Layla Sayed highlights the devastating impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on children and families, spotlighting the aftermath of funding cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and antipoverty programs that help millions of families to meet basic needs. Those cuts funded massive tax breaks for the wealthy, an unprecedented increas...
