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July 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Haiti’s Political Impasse

Haiti’s Political Impasse     Greg Beckett June 27, 2025 NACLA Haiti’s current form of “checkpoint governance” represents a structural transformation in how politics works in the country. What defines Haiti now is an impasse—a condition of blockage and imm…

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July 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program

How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program     Michael Crowley June 24, 2025 The New York Times A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch. “Atom…

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June 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Sunday Science: Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama

Sunday Science: Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama     Charlotte Williams June 26, 2025 Sapiens An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to r…

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June 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Supreme Court Has Dealt Another Devastating Blow to Women

The Supreme Court Has Dealt Another Devastating Blow to Women     Elie Mystal June 26, 2025 The Nation The court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault on bodily autonomy. …

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June 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Study of Nazi Courts Full of Grim Lessons for Today

Study of Nazi Courts Full of Grim Lessons for Today     Tom Sandborn June 24, 2025 Rabble (Canada) While the most horrific acts of injustice in German courtrooms may have occurred during the reign of Hitler, in many ways the courts had been corrupted by ri…

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June 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM

How Anti-Worker Policies, Crony Capitalism, and Privatization Keep the South Locked Out of Shared Prosperity

How Anti-Worker Policies, Crony Capitalism, and Privatization Keep the South Locked Out of Shared Prosperity     Nina Mast June 18, 2025 Economic Policy Institute Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety n…

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June 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.     Margaret Coker June 26, 2025 ProPublica GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s exa…

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June 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

AMC’s “Nautilus” Gives Us Indiana-Jones Worthy Adventure With Imperialist Villains

Portside Culture AMC’s “Nautilus” Gives Us Indiana-Jones Worthy Adventure With Imperialist Villains     Cristina Escobar June 28, 2025 RogerEbert.com And that’s the other tenth of the show—a clear-eyed portrayal of the evils of imperialism and the …

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June 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM

From Segregation to the Backdoor Draft: How Structural Racism Fuels America’s Endless Wars

From Segregation to the Backdoor Draft: How Structural Racism Fuels America’s Endless Wars     Sharon Kyle June 27, 2025 LA Progressive De jure segregation, the backdoor draft, and elite immunity are part of a recurring cycle of American inequality. As the…

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June 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties

Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties     Jared Abbott and Les Leopold June 20, 2025 Jacobin Polling shows Americans are ready to support independent populists running on economic platforms. But what they don’t want is anything associated with the Demo…

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June 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Corporate Plan for AI Is Dangerous

The Corporate Plan for AI Is Dangerous     Martin Hart-Landsberg June 27, 2025 Socialist Project Can we create more modest AI systems that assist human workers and support creative and socially beneficial work? The answer is yes. But that is not the road c…

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June 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘This Isn’t Just About Policy, It’s About What Kind of Nation We Want To Be’: CounterSpin Interview With LaToya Parker on Trump Budget’s Racial Impact

‘This Isn’t Just About Policy, It’s About What Kind of Nation We Want To Be’: CounterSpin Interview With LaToya Parker on Trump Budget’s Racial Impact     Janine Jackson June 27, 2025 FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting The Budget is a moral docume…

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June 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Just Transition for All: A Q&A With J. Mijin Cha

Just Transition for All: A Q&A With J. Mijin Cha     Chris Mills Rodrigo June 17, 2025 Inequality.org The idea of non-reformist reforms is that you work within your existing system to build something new, while also winding down the extractive system. …

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June 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 27, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | June 27, 2025     June 27, 2025 xxxxxx Mamdani Wins With Positivity | Stephen Colbert. Proud To Be an American | George Carlin. Birthright Citizenship Instant Response! Zohran Mamdani's Full Victory Speech. Woody Guthrie’s Fight with Tru…

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June 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM

Israel’s Euphoric ‘Victory’ Over Iran Is Quickly Giving Way to Disillusionment

Israel’s Euphoric ‘Victory’ Over Iran Is Quickly Giving Way to Disillusionment     Meron Rapoport June 27, 2025 +972 Magazine The “endgame” goal wasn’t achieved. In fact, while the details of the Trump-Tehran ceasefire agreement remain murky, what’s clear …

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June 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM

How Taxes Drive Inequality

How Taxes Drive Inequality     June 27, 2025 Inequality.org Stock buybacks. Sales taxes. Loopholes. ... Let's count the ways that tax reforms to benefit the rich and big corporations have exacerbated inequality and drained resources from funding vital publ…

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June 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Sotomayor in Dissent: None of Our Rights Is Safe

Sotomayor in Dissent: None of Our Rights Is Safe     Shirin Ali June 27, 2025 Slate The three dissenting justices use stark language to frame the threat: “The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constit…

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June 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism     Rivka Galchen June 27, 2025 The New Yorker It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying ra…

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June 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Jerusalem Revisited

Portside Culture Jerusalem Revisited     Mary Mackey In "Jerusalem," William Blake vowed to fight the 'dark Satanic Mills' of early capitalism. Answering Blake, poet Mary Mackey recognizes contemporary capitalism's failures, but vows to embrace what's…

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June 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM

At a Bleak Political Moment, Zohran Mamdani Offers Hope

At a Bleak Political Moment, Zohran Mamdani Offers Hope     Liza Featherstone June 25, 2025 Jacobin Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible.…

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June 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Zohran Mamdani’s People-Powered Win Is a Rebuke to Democrat Cowardice

Zohran Mamdani’s People-Powered Win Is a Rebuke to Democrat Cowardice     Lex McMenamin June 25, 2025 Teen Vogue Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, argues politics…

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June 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation     Alistair Kitchen June 19, 2025 The New Yorker As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underesti…

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June 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM

50 Years After the Vietnam War, the Legacy of Nonviolent Resistance Lives On

50 Years After the Vietnam War, the Legacy of Nonviolent Resistance Lives On     Elena Novak June 20, 2025 Waging Nonviolence At the 50th anniversary celebration of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. antiwar activists drew lessons for sto…

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June 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- June 26-Readers Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; Before Zohran, There Was Comrade La Guardia; Trump Shames America, Nuclear Options, Negotiation, Netanyahu; World Council of Churches: Call To End Apartheid, Occupation; More;

Tidbits- June 26-Readers Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; Before Zohran, There Was Comrade La Guardia; Trump Shames America, Nuclear Options, Negotiation, Netanyahu; World Council of Churches: Call To End Apartheid, Occupation; More;     June 26, 2025 xxxxxx …

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June 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to ‘Billionaire-Backed Status Quo’ in NYC

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to ‘Billionaire-Backed Status Quo’ in NYC     Jake Johnson June 25, 2025 Common Dreams "The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires…

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June 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM

The Supreme Court Picks Trump Over the Rule of Law

The Supreme Court Picks Trump Over the Rule of Law     Matt Ford June 25, 2025 The New Republic The high court has dealt a savage blow to due process and has rewarded the administration for defying court orders. ,   The Supreme Court deal…

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June 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM

Union Leaders’ Exit From DNC Exposes ‘Mind-Boggling’ Tensions Inside Democratic Party

Union Leaders’ Exit From DNC Exposes ‘Mind-Boggling’ Tensions Inside Democratic Party     Steven Greenhouse June 25, 2025 The Guardian Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten s…

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June 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades As U.S. Withdraws Support

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades As U.S. Withdraws Support     Stephanie Nolen June 25, 2025 The New York Times A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding …

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June 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM

How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War

Portside Culture How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War     Melina Moe May 2, 2025 Los Angeles Review of Books A librarian tells her story of being on the front lines of the far right wing assault on libraries and know…

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June 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — June 25, 2025

Global Left Midweek — June 25, 2025     June 25, 2025 xxxxxx Resistance works Protesting cuts to disability benefits in London. Credit, Disability News Service   Resistance Works Perspectives on The War Against Overtourism The Fight to Sto…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

First Images of Distant Galaxies Captured by ‘Ultimate’ Telescope

First Images of Distant Galaxies Captured by ‘Ultimate’ Telescope     Ian Sample June 23, 2025 The Guardian Stunning pictures from Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile released at start of 10-year survey of cosmos. This image combines 678 separate i…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Busting the Myth of Trump as an Anti-War President

Busting the Myth of Trump as an Anti-War President     C.J. Polychroniou June 24, 2025 Common Dreams Trump's vision is of a world where the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. It has nothing to do with peace. Iranian prote…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Majority of Democrats Want Party Leaders Replaced As DNC Turmoil Deepens

Majority of Democrats Want Party Leaders Replaced As DNC Turmoil Deepens     Alexis Sterling June 24, 2025 Nation of Change New polling reveals growing discontent with Democratic leadership as base pushes for stronger opposition to Trump and support for pr…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts

The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts     Thom Walsh June 23, 2025 The American Prospect We don’t call it Medicaid in many states, and we use euphemisms for what are in reality cuts. That endangers the system, a health care regulator writes. O…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Materialists Tries To Update the Rom-Com for the Tinder Generation

Portside Culture Materialists Tries To Update the Rom-Com for the Tinder Generation     Eileen Jones June 18, 2025 Jacobin Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet…

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June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes — June 24, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes — June 24, 2025     June 24, 2025 xxxxxx Surveillance and self-protection ,   Split in MAGA Media DIY Terrorism  TikTokers vs the Birthday Boy MSM vs Zohran Smartphones and the Avalanche of Irrelevance Kids are Protest…

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June 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM

Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests     Lisa Friedman June 23, 2025 The New York Times Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absur…

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June 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jun 25-Jul 1, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Jun 25-Jul 1, 2025     xxxxxx School Integration in a Small Town (1955), Love Is All You Need (2015), ‘That Flag Just Had to Come Down’ (2015), Liberation Day, (1970), It’s a Police Action, Not a War (1950), Goodnight Irene (195…

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June 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Before Zohran Mamdani, There Was Comrade La Guardia

Before Zohran Mamdani, There Was Comrade La Guardia     Waleed Shahid June 23, 2025 Waleed's Substack First they call you radical. Then they name an airport after you. Zorhan Mamdani (l), Fiorello La Guardia (r),   In 1935, at the end of …

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June 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Nations Are People: Do You Deserve To Die for Your Own Bad Government?

Nations Are People: Do You Deserve To Die for Your Own Bad Government?     Hamilton Nolan June 22, 2025 How Things Work Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, b…

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June 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran     Isaac Chotiner, James M. Acton June 22, 2025 The New Yorker Interview with James M. Acton, the chair and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International …

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10 Everyday Foods You’d Never Guess Contain Synthetic Dyes

Portside Culture 10 Everyday Foods You’d Never Guess Contain Synthetic Dyes     Stacey Leasca May 12, 2025 Food & Wine You may think you know which foods contain artificial color, but many dyes could be lurking in foods you'd never expect. …

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June 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM

Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye

Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye     Daniel Clery June 18, 2025 Science The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe Fro…

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June 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past     Erica L. Green June 20, 2025 The New York Times Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by…

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June 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Supreme Court Not Sure Why You Thought the Equal Protection Clause Meant Anything

Supreme Court Not Sure Why You Thought the Equal Protection Clause Meant Anything     Madiba K. Dennie June 18, 2025 Balls and Strikes A law banning healthcare for trans kids does not discriminate against trans kids, and other pearls of wisdom from the cou…

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June 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s Aid Death Traps for Starving Gazans

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s Aid Death Traps for Starving Gazans     By Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi June 20, 2025 +972 Magazine Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Surv…

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June 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Labor Could Swing NYC’s Election to Zohran

Labor Could Swing NYC’s Election to Zohran     Eric Blanc June 19, 2025 Labor Politics How rank-and-file activists helped break their unions from politics-as-usual , Labor Politics   Zohran Mamdani has shocked the political establishment …

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June 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Breaking Away From Bad: TV Needs a Rest From Rich People Doing Terrible Things

Portside Culture Breaking Away From Bad: TV Needs a Rest From Rich People Doing Terrible Things     Saloni Gajjar June 16, 2025 AV Club These days, it’s hard to care about affluent fictional characters who get away with everything. The Wh…

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June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Nuclear Options

Nuclear Options     Tariq Ali June 17, 2025 Sidecar, blog of New Left Review Netanyahu’s boast that he will bring about regime change has produced the opposite effect. Hijabless women have been demonstrating in the streets, chanting ‘Get an atom bomb’. The…

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June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Diaspora at a Crossroads

A Diaspora at a Crossroads     Ankur Singh June 12, 2025 The Progressive At two events in the suburbs of Chicago this spring, members of the Indian diaspora responded to the rise of ethnonationalism in very different ways. Sadhvi Rithambara tying…

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