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December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor     Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll December 23, 2024 ProPublica As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted agains…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Sherrod Brown Should Absolutely Run Again To Represent the Working Class in the Senate

Sherrod Brown Should Absolutely Run Again To Represent the Working Class in the Senate     John Nichols December 19, 2024 The Nation The outgoing senator recognizes—to a greater extent than any other Democrat—the need to renew the party’s commitment to a pol…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Ten Years After Normalization With Cuba, Trump Hardliners Take Cuba Back in Time

Ten Years After Normalization With Cuba, Trump Hardliners Take Cuba Back in Time     Ed Augustin December 20, 2024 Drop Site A decade after Obama’s normalization, Trump’s team looks to ratchet up pressure on the island. ,   HAVANA — After t…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power

How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power     Alex Press December 19, 2024 Dissent The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend. U…

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December 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food

Portside Culture Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food     Michael Grunwald December 13, 2024 New York Times Environmentalists and even agribusinesses and food conglomerates talk about supplanting industrial methods with kinder and gentler “regenerat…

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December 23, 2024 at 7:10 AM

Sunday Science: Infamous Paper That Popularized Unproven COVID-19 Treatment Finally Retracted

Sunday Science: Infamous Paper That Popularized Unproven COVID-19 Treatment Finally Retracted     Cathleen O’Grady December 17, 2024 Science Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds S…

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December 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

Portside Culture Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries     Dean Van Nguyen December 22, 2024 Jacobin Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on…

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December 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM

One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever

One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever     Jonathan van Harmelen December 18, 2024 The Nation Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM

Meet the Far-Right Settler Benjamin Netanyahu Has Tapped To Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.

Meet the Far-Right Settler Benjamin Netanyahu Has Tapped To Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.     Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss Yechiel Leiter, a hardcore settler leader once involved in Meir Kahane's fascist Jewish Defense League, will be Israel's next a…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:25 AM

How Musk Out-Maneuvered Trump

How Musk Out-Maneuvered Trump     Robert Kuttner December 21, 2024 The American Prospect Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it? Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance at last week's Army-Navy football game., AP Photo/Stephani…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan     Chad Pearson December 22, 2024 Jacobin Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers. Ku K…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:10 AM

A xxxxxx Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

A xxxxxx Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator     xxxxxx Moderators December 21, 2024 xxxxxx Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again.…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Holding West Bank Settlers Accountable for Violence

Holding West Bank Settlers Accountable for Violence     Michael Arria December 20, 2024 Mondoweiss Congressional Democrats led by Rep. Summer Lee and Sen. Peter Welch have introduced legislation to sanction Israeli settlers that commit acts of violence in th…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM

What Can Education Be Without High Stakes Testing?

What Can Education Be Without High Stakes Testing?     Doug Selwyn December 13, 2024 Greenfield Recorder In November 2024 Massachusetts voters ended the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System as the graduation requirement for students. , The…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Creating Traditions of Care for the Holidays

Creating Traditions of Care for the Holidays     Kelly Hayes December 17, 2024 Organizing My Thoughts A commitment to the well-being of whole generations, from children to grandparents demand that we stop this forcible separation of families, and as we work …

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Forty Years After the Bhopal Disaster, the Danger Still Remains

Forty Years After the Bhopal Disaster, the Danger Still Remains     Gary Cohen December 18, 2024 The Progressive On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster -- with a death toll of over 20,000 -- Senator Jeff Merkley, Representatives Pramila Jayapal and …

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Francis Perkins Memorial

Francis Perkins Memorial     Heather Cox Richardson December 17, 2024 Letters from an American Frances Perkins’s work to build FDR’s New Deal sparked the modern American state. She recognized that the central purpose of government was not to protect property…

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December 21, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024     December 20, 2024 xxxxxx "It's A Worm-derful Life" - Animated Holiday Classic. BBC in Civil War Over Gaza. Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Why Your Favorite Movies Fake Their Locations. 'Syria: Only Now Can …

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December 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM

The Democrats’ Path Back To Power

The Democrats’ Path Back To Power     Pramila Jayapal December 19, 2024 Newsweek Democrats do have a clear path forward: to be united and passionate about fighting for bold, direct economic policies that unrig the system and deliver change so families across…

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December 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM

Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of Its Dirty War

Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of Its Dirty War     Kate Doyle and Claire Dorfman December 20, 2024 National Security Archive Mexico's first National Truth Commission has released monumental reports on state violence during the 'dirty wars' …

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December 21, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser

Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser     Jamelle Bouie December 18, 2024 New York Times The Democratic Party lacks the energy of a determined opposition — it is adrift, listless in the wake of defeat, ready to concede that Trump is some kind of a…

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December 21, 2024 at 2:20 AM

For Enslaved People, Holiday Season Was a Time for Revelry – and Possibly Flight

For Enslaved People, Holiday Season Was a Time for Revelry – and Possibly Flight     Ana Lucia Araujo December 18, 2024 The Conversation Slave owners tried to keep enslaved people under control with better meals and more downtime during the holiday season. M…

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December 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Peasantry

Portside Culture The Peasantry     Weijia Pan Motherlands Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society. ,   The people, and the people alone, are the motive force of world history.
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December 20, 2024 at 3:25 AM

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.     Kate Aronoff December 17, 2024 The New Republic In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy. The elderly are not too ol…

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December 20, 2024 at 3:05 AM

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws – From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws – From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term     Karen J. Greenberg December 19, 2024 TomDispatch In fact, much (though admittedly, not all) of what we’re witnessing today might simply be considered an esca…

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December 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Donald Trump and His Allies Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are

Donald Trump and His Allies Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are     Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò December 11, 2024 Teen Vogue Being “the right kind” of progressive or feminist or socialist can easily become its own goal, rather than winning concrete victorie…

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December 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.     Edo Konrad and Alaa Salama December 17, 2024 +972 Magazine The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Is…

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December 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…     December 19, 2024 xxxxx…

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December 19, 2024 at 6:45 AM

Why Did ABC Cave In to Trump?

Why Did ABC Cave In to Trump?     Robert Reich December 17, 2024 Robert Reich Substack It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must. ABC agreed to a $15 million settlement after Donald Trump sued them for de…

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December 19, 2024 at 6:20 AM

I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.

I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.     Wendell Potter December 18, 2024 New York Times I was forced to come to terms with the fact that I was playing a leading role in a system that made desperate people wait months or longer to get…

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December 19, 2024 at 6:05 AM

Privatizing the Post Office Would Be a Disaster

Privatizing the Post Office Would Be a Disaster     Ben Burgis December 17, 2024 Jacobin Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia. …

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December 19, 2024 at 5:55 AM

Coal Use To Reach New Peak – and Remain at Near-Record Levels for Years

Coal Use To Reach New Peak – and Remain at Near-Record Levels for Years     Jillian Ambrose December 18, 2024 The Guardian Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , Photograph: Wolfgang Ratta…

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December 19, 2024 at 5:10 AM

Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice

Portside Culture Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice     Paul Buhle December 12, 2024 CounterPunch Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to…

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December 19, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – December 18, 2024

Global Left Midweek – December 18, 2024     December 18, 2024 xxxxxx The great solidarity movement of 2024 ,   Power, Populism and the Global Left The Great Solidarity Movement of 2024 More Analysis on South Korea Palestinian Women at a Cr…

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December 18, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy

The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy     Mark Harris December 17, 2024 Common Dreams Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza. People mourn victims of Israeli a…

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December 18, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Labor’s “Barbarossa” Moment

Labor’s “Barbarossa” Moment     Bill Fletcher Jr. December 17, 2024 Liberation Road Notes An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024 …

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December 18, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Benjamin Netanyahu Is on Trial for His Political Life

Benjamin Netanyahu Is on Trial for His Political Life     Uri Weltmann December 17, 2024 Jacobin The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a trial for corruption to the tune…

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December 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Pete Hegseth Is a Terrible Choice To Head the Pentagon

Pete Hegseth Is a Terrible Choice To Head the Pentagon     Veterans for Peace December 16, 2024 Popular Resistance Veterans For Peace is calling on US Senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for US Defense Secretary, should President-elect nominate him. …

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December 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Nickel Boys Is a Cinematic Experience Unlike Any Other

Portside Culture Nickel Boys Is a Cinematic Experience Unlike Any Other     Bilge Ebiri December 12, 2024 Vulture In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perce…

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December 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 17, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 17, 2024     December 17, 2024 xxxxxx Immigration activists prepare Credit, RJ Matson   Assassination Uncovers Mass Rage The Fate of the 14th Amendment Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace Encount…

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December 17, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Confidence in U.S. Courts Plummets To Rate Far Below Peer Nations

Confidence in U.S. Courts Plummets To Rate Far Below Peer Nations     Adam Liptak December 17, 2024 New York Times Very few countries have experienced similar declines, typically in the wake of wrenching turmoil. Experts called the data, from a new Gallup po…

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December 17, 2024 at 1:55 AM

This Week in People’s History, Dec 18–24

This Week in People’s History, Dec 18–24     xxxxxx Legalized Xenophobia Then and Now (1944), Gramsci’s Dialectic of Hope (1929), ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ (1969), Mass Deportations by the U.S. – in 1919?, CIA Lawlessness Exposed (1974), Will Boeing Ever Come…

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December 17, 2024 at 1:05 AM

When Did Neandertals and Humans Interbreed? Genomics Closes In on a Date

When Did Neandertals and Humans Interbreed? Genomics Closes In on a Date     Stephanie Pappas December 12, 2024 Scientific American Genomic sleuthing can determine how many generations have passed since a hybridization event. The oldest human genomes ever se…

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December 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Trump and the Latin American Left

Trump and the Latin American Left     Ociel Ali López December 6, 2024 NACLA Reports Progressive governments in Latin America are not as united today as they were a decade ago. How prepared are they to navigate the onslaught of a second Trump administration?…

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December 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM

"Big Food” Tries To Look Good

Portside Culture "Big Food” Tries To Look Good     Alicia Kennedy December 12, 2024 The Bittman Project Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow th…

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December 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Many Wealthy Members of Congress Are Descendants of Rich Slaveholders − New Study Demonstrates the Enduring Legacy of Slavery

Many Wealthy Members of Congress Are Descendants of Rich Slaveholders − New Study Demonstrates the Enduring Legacy of Slavery     Neil K R Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania and Ashwini Sehgal, Case Western Reserve University October 23, 2024 The Conversation …

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December 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM

Sunday Science: A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn

Sunday Science: A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn     Carl Zimmer December 12, 2024 New York Times Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biol…

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December 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM

America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump     Yanis Varoufakis December 2, 2024 Project Syndicate If the US president-elect’s efforts to eliminate America’s trade deficit succeed, real-estate prices in Miami and Manhattan will crash, the cost of …

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December 16, 2024 at 8:35 AM

A Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations

A Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations     David Bacon December 15, 2024 Jacobin The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and strategic thinking — and it can h…

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December 16, 2024 at 8:05 AM

‘As Much and As Quickly as Possible’: Israeli Settlers Eye Land in Syria, Lebanon

‘As Much and As Quickly as Possible’: Israeli Settlers Eye Land in Syria, Lebanon     Illy Pe’ery December 12, 2024 972 Magazine With the Israeli army advancing into Syria following Assad's fall, a group promoting settlements in Lebanon is casting its gaze e…

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