Breaking the Public Schools

Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.

GenZ and Kamala Harris: Is the Meet-Cute Enough?

They call themselves ‘the coconut army’ and are out in droves to reach young people aged 18-29. Can they turn activism into votes?

This Week in People’s History, Oct 16–22

Harpers Ferry as it looked in 1857
Harpers Ferry, a Bridge Too Far (1859), Lynch Mob Gets Served (1894), A Frame-Up Falls Apart 15 Years Too Late (1989), George Washington’s Indigenous ‘Enemies’ (1779), Civil Servants In the Crosshairs (2020), A Guilty Verdict Reversed by Trump (2014)

Indian Fighting Today: In the Courts

There’s a long list of law firms who specialize in modern day Indian fighting. It’s usually to do with tribal jurisdiction over water, land, or children, all pretty basic for the survival of a people.

Where War in the Middle East Will Be Won or Lost

The Biden administration is taking action in the West Bank, but it may be too late.

The Fantasy of a Global Warming Time Machine

Nearly all modelled pathways for limiting global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels involved temporarily transgressing this target. A new study published in Nature confirmed that this was nothing more than a fantasy.

How Elections Are Certified in Battleground States

State laws require officials to certify results, and safeguards are in place should someone fail to fulfill that obligation.

Palestine: What the Last Year Has Meant

Professor Rashid Khalidi on Israel’s growing wars in the Middle East and the United States’ complicity in them

Policy Reforms Needed on Immigration

Recommendations and a review of key issues to ensure fair wages and labor standards for all workers

A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created.
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Culture

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Hungry Work

Lola Olufemi Vittles
It was women who ran the hostel services and food kitchens in the League of Coloured Peoples in the 1930–50s; and women who made sure that the minutes of meetings and conferences were kept. They are why we have this important history.

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Hollywood’s New Sex Worker Roles Are Girlboss Heroines

Emma Paling Jacobin
In Hollywood, sex workers have become the ultimate girlbosses. The message is clear: there’s no need for collective empowerment when one can escape the low-wage economy by cashing in on the power of bootstrapping entrepreneurism.

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Donald Trump, Sexual Predator

Lloyd Green The Guardian
This book and this review are nearly five years old. Their relevance remains undiminished.

Labor

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Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers

Mark Levinson New Labor Forum
Bidenomics is a break with four decades of policy that disempowered workers. This record was obscured by Biden’s inability to explain his accomplishments. Undoing neoliberalism will take time but can happen with a revitalized labor movement.

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How Climate Change Threatens Workers

Jordan Barab Combined Space
Photo of the outside of a factory building after being devastated by the hurricane. Worker risk is also a function of workers’ power in the workplace — or lack thereof. Where they work, the conditions they work under and their ability to protect themselves against obvious threats make workers more vulnerable than average citizens.

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Boeing Strike Continues

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
On Sept. 23, Boeing announced a new contract offer, but did so in a press release and directly to members instead of to their union in bargaining. Union members said the proposal was inadequate, and disrespectful in the way it bypassed the union.

Friday nite video

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Washington's Dream 2 | SNL

George Washington (Nate Bargatze) tells his soldiers (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson) more of his dreams for the country.

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Who Do Trump Voters Blame?

Does Oliver Anthony (Rich Men North of Richmond) still resonate? We went to an Oliver Anthony concert in Michigan to find the answer and discovered a bigger story about what people want in this election—and for this country.