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May 4, 2024

Taxes for Big Companies Fell by 50% After Trump Cuts

Tess Owen Common Dreams

And this is the policy Republicans and their presumptive presidential nominee are vowing to extend if they win in November.

May 4, 2024

Are Critics of Student Protests Anti-Semitic?

Ajay Skaria The Wire

The distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is quite simple, and the protesting students recognise it.

May 4, 2024

War in Sudan: One Year on…

Fathi El-Fadl Liberation

The outcome of this catastrophic war, even if touted as a “victory” by either side, will only be the exacerbation in the suffering of our people, and a hastening towards our country becoming a failed state.

May 4, 2024

Setting Our Sights on a Third Reconstruction

Max Elbaum Convergence

If our goal is a robust democracy and working-class power, the experiences of the Civil War-Reconstruction era and the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s-’60s provide crucial lessons for breaking out of our current impasse.

May 3, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | May 3, 2024

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Blue Bottle Baristas Are Organizing. Like a Kidney Stone | Bob Dylan and Women Journalists. Jesse Watters Math | The Daily Show. I Am Gitmo | Movie. Why Do So Many Americans Support a Neofascist?