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This Week in People’s History, Sept. 26-Oct. 2

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Police mugshot of civil rights activist Mary Hamilton Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project

Matt Stoller, David Dayen The American Prospect
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.

The Dark History of Medicare Privatization

Barbara Caress The American Prospect
Medicare Advantage was supposed to be a money-saver. It’s now become a costly, unaccountable cash cow for private insurance companies that is swallowing traditional Medicare.
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