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The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life

For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism....

The Marginal Realists of Standing Together

An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.

Governors Are Calling Early Care and Education

Child care is both hard to find and increasingly expensive for families. The average price of licensed child care for a U.S. family is nearly $11,000 per year, which is 33 percent of the median household income for single-parent families.

irst City-wide Rent Reduction in NY State Upheld

Five judge panel rules unanimously determination of Kingston Rent Guidelines Board mandating 15% rent reduction is valid “[n]othing in the applicable statutory language explicitly requires that the Board adjust the rent upward rather than downward.”

Mar. 28, 2024 - Reader Comments, Announcements, Cartoon

Reader Comments: Demand for Gaza Ceasefire, Standing With Palestinians; RFK, Jr; Government Numbers About...; Single-Payer Saves-Report France; Greatest Baseball Films; Seafood's Potential; Käthe Kollwitz - New Exhibition at MOMA in New York; more

Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers

Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.

Biden Gaza Strategy Panned As ‘Mess’

Strain of aiming to influence Israel’s actions without leverage and also avoiding starvation is showing, say analysts

The Greatest Baseball Films

Most baseball films are pure entertainment. But baseball is often the setting for notable films that tell a bigger story about America’s social conditions. As the Major League Baseball season begins, here are 13 examples.

Why Is US Letting the Oil Industry Destroy the Planet

The men who made the intentional decision to murder my father are long dead; the men and women who today are plotting to render much of our beautiful planet uninhabitable are very much with us…

Global Left Midweek – March 27, 2024

Politics above — politics below
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Culture

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Through a Grid, Darkly

Adrienne Raphel Los Angeles Review of Books
This book, writes reviewer Raphel, "is both a memoir and a cultural analysis of American crosswords from the 1910s through the 2010s."

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Taking a Hammer to It

Jeremy Hsu New Scientist Magazine
An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.

Labor

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Ron Carey’s Lessons in Labor Movement Reform

Steve Early Rand Wilson Jacobin
The late and legendary Teamsters reform leader Ron Carey briefly succeeded in a monumental task: turning around a corrupt and conservative union. Today’s aspiring reformers looking to revitalize their own unions can learn from his career.

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Worker-to-Worker Unionism: A Model for Labor To Scale Up

Eric Blanc Jacobin
At the heart of the current uptick in union organizing at companies like Starbucks has been “worker-to-worker unionism.” That model could be key to scaling up organizing and revitalizing the labor movement.

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UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill

Shawn Street UMWA
Placing a landfill on this site [Moss 3 Preparation Plant occupied by miners during 1989 Pittston strike] is a snub to not only those surviving workers but Russell County’s proud labor heritage.

Friday nite video

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Mary Lou Fulton | Many More Of Us

Combine the fight for women's freedom with a funky groove and you get Many More of Us, a new rocker from award-winning songwriter Mary Lou Fulton.

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The Captured Supreme Court

Right-wing donor interests aim to capture the Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.