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What Can Zohran Accomplish?

Mamdani’s agenda will face serious obstacles. A massive wave of new voters doesn’t just carry you into office. It shifts the landscape, it creates political capital that can be turned toward other ends; changes political calculations for others...

Zohran Mamdani Can Learn From Paris’s Housing Victories

As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York.

Israeli Plan For Forced Transfer Of Gaza’s Population

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America

For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care. Rural America is changing rapidly, and immigrants are central to that transformation.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, July 10, 2025

Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic disaster plan two days before flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants - More Disasters to Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches next week; more

UAW's Fain: Trump Budget Law a 'Total Worker Betrayal'

"This bill isn't governance," said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. "This is a class war waged from Capitol Hill."

After Mamdani’s Win, Some Democrats Want To Stop Him

Though Zohran Mamdani scored a resounding victory in New York City’s Democratic primary, some in his own party are strategizing about how to defeat him in November.

Checks and Balances? Dream On in the Age of Trump!

Portland in 2020, Los Angeles Today, the United States Tomorrow?

If the Truth Is a Crime, Then We Are All Criminals

Now that Trump has threatened to prosecute CNN, what happens next will define the role of the press and the soul of this nation…

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Asia

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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."

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“World Without End” Unveils a World With Hope (Still)

Toby LeBlanc Southern Review of Books
"This book is needed," writes reviewer LeBlanc. "Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation."

Labor

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Fight ICE. Build the Union.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare Workday Magazine
How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties

Emmaia Gelman Labor Notes
The three million-member National Education Association approved a measure that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.

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Stealing From the Poor

Heidi Shierholz Economic Policy Institute
The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich

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PSC, Higher-Ed Unions Slam Federal Research Funding Cuts

Crystal Lewis The Chief
President of PSC and other members rally with signs saying "stop the war of universities". th In addition to the grants already defunded, the Trump administration has proposed setting a 15-percent cap on indirect cost reimbursements, leaving a gap many public colleges and universities would be unable to cover, the advocates said.

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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.

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Gaza | Along the Green Line: Episode 3

In the third and final episode of Along the Green Line, reporter Matthew Cassel heads to the south of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.