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Pro-Trump Oligarchs Driving Americans Into Homelessness

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.

The Other Sherman’s March

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

When Hurricane Evacuation Isn’t an Option

Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee.

Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Incarcerated People and Voting Rights

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

Friday Nite Videos | October 25, 2024

Is America Ready Ditch the Electoral College? Voters May End Gerrymandering in Ohio. The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane. The Right-Wing Plan To Recruit Poll Workers in Swing States. How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

Will Trump Go Full Fascist at Madison Square Garden?

In February 1939, the German-American Bund held an infamous, Hitler-supporting rally in Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump will be holding a rally at Madison Square Garden. The parallel is unmistakable.

Real Men Reject Fascism

However one might reject their premises, some fraction of the American men who have succumbed to the lure of Trump’s fascism need to feel seen and heard and recognized. Saving the country from tyranny needs to become aspirational for men.

Billie Jean King Led a Revolution in Women’s Sports

Tennis star Billie Jean King challenged America to create more opportunities for women and LGBTQ people. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur, and professional athletics.

How Much Energy Does It Take To Make a Baby?

Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.
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Bullets

Terry Adams Portside
Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

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Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

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Peaches

Peter Neil Carroll Something Is Bound to Break
Poet Peter Neil Carroll offers a wry and humorous look at the interplay between his progressive ideals and life’s daily joys.

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The Problems With Polls

Samuel Earle The New York Review of Books
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

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Raising Minimum Wage Does Not Hurt Fast-Food Workers

Alex Park Jacobin
Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

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Machinists Reject Proposal, Strike On

The Stand
IAM District 751 and W24 Machinists voted by 64% to reject the contract and continue to strike. Boeing’s decision to strip workers of their pensions and refusal to return them remains at the heart of this strike for many.

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Potential Impacts of a Full Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts

Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Jasmine Kerrissey Political Economy Research Institute
Massachusetts will vote on Question 5 to eliminate a subminimum wage for tipped workers. This brief describes the workers who will be directly affected by eliminating the subminimum wage & considers impact on job quality, employment, costs & prices.

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Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

Je Siqueira Jacobin
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.

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Voters May End Gerrymandering in Ohio

Voters have recently ended highly gerrymandered election maps in Michigan and Wisconsin. An initiative on the ballot this November gives Ohio voters a chance to follow their example. 

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The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane | Movie

Barbara Dane (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024) was a powerhouse blues/jazz/folk singer whose unbending principles earned her a 5-inch thick FBI file. A 2023 documentary directed by Maureen Gosling, featuring Bonnie Raitt, Jane Fonda, The Chambers Brothers, Louis Armstong.

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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

Sleep scientist Matt Walker tells us the recommended amount for adults and explains why it's necessary for your long-term health.