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Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Mamdani Has Awakened a Powerful New Political Force

Where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall.

Labor-Backed Coalition to Flip 35+ House Seats in 2026

"Working people deserve leaders who will fight for them, not grovel at the feet of their billionaire donors," said Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party, one of the groups involved in the new coalition.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, July 17, 2025

Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...

Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0

Is it possible for American democracy to be further degraded by the influence of billionaires? Thanks to champion of the working class J. D. Vance and his right-wing friends, including “dark money kingpin” Leonard Leo, we may soon find out.

Israel Unveils a Concentration Camp in Southern Gaza

Israel would create a ghetto which would quickly become a concentration camp on the ruins of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Senate GOP Set to Eviscerate Public Media Funding

The bill threatens "emergency alerts that save lives, local journalism that informs communities, and educational tools that support families, job seekers, and teachers," according to Protect My Public Media.

Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.

Global Left Midweek – July 16, 2025

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Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy of Repression

Ed Rampell The Progressive
Writer Rampell looks at a long-forgotten, but deeply influential, document from the domestic Cold War that served the unofficial blacklist for radio and television performers, with the aim of helping draw lessons for today.

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Yes, Superman Has Always Been an Immigration Story

Andrew Slack, Jose Antonio Vargas The Hollywood Reporter
Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world's most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.

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Marat / Sade Medley

Judy Collins
In honor of Bastille Day, a medley of tunes from Peter Brooks' production of Peter Weiss's play, Marat / Sade. Sung by Judy Collins.

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Living Life With a Purpose: Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs

Kurt Stand Portside
We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, become normalized. Music can provide an antidote, reminding us of who we can be, as anyone listening to Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs will discover.

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The Writer As Editor in “Toni at Random”

Gianni Washington Chicago Review of Books
"This book is not about Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author," writes reviewer Washington, "but about Toni Morrison, boundary-pushing senior editor at Random House."

Labor

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America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement

Maya Adereth Jacobin
Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provi

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The Dismantling of American Health Care

Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein and Staffie Woolhander The New York Review of Books
We must resist Trump’s war on medical access and knowledge today, even as we prepare to rebuild something better tomorrow.

Friday nite video

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Apocalypse in the Tropics | Documentary

Apocalypse in the Tropics investigates the increasingly powerful grip that evangelical Christian leaders hold over politics in Brazil, possibly holding a mirror up to the future of the rest of the world.

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'The House I Live In' | Paul Robeson

These lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol (who later adopted the children of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg) under the pen name Lewis Allen (1943); the music was composed by Earl Robinson. This 1947 cover by Paul Robeson includes all the original verses.