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Head into the long Labor Day weekend with some of our best reads of the week—including a powerful rumination on the 400th anniversary of 1619, the year American slavery began

As the world burns

Sarah Jaffe on the Amazon and other flashpoints in the crisis of capitalism.

The growing movement to #visitaprison

More than 100 politicians have committed to it. 

India fulfills its Hindu nationalist agenda

The Kashmir gambit has a long history.

 

Disability and the myth of the public charge

What are bootstraps to those who literally cannot stand?  

Team Trump and Bolsonaro: like minded-partners

As the Amazon burns, the parallels between Brazil and U.S. policy are clear.

Wisconsin needlessly polices free speech

Lawmakers point to campus disruptions that are not even happening. 

“What we need in America is a steady gaze in the mirror, accepting that any talk about our history is the story of people brought here as slaves.”  -Kevin Powell
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