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Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

Rick Massimo Forget I Said Anything
The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

J.W. Mason Dissent Magazine
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...

One Brief Shining Moment

Adam Hochschild The New York Review of Books
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It.

William Shoki The New York Times
Discussion of Mr. Musk often misses something: He is a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters. He is in fact a distinctly ideological figure.

Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism

Marc Blanc Jacobin
Printed out of a cattle barn in Missouri, Anvil published some of the biggest leftist writers of the 1930s, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Its popular vision for multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent.
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