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Wondering How Nuts Trump’s Tariffs Are? Consider Aluminum.

Bill Saporito The New York Times
The Canadian aluminum industry hasn’t bilked the United States. America needs aluminum to keep its auto plants running and to keep food and drink prices down, and Canada is just better at making it.

Under Israeli Settler Attacks, I Feel I Am Not Alive

Miriame Mazid and Melodie Cochet Jacobin
Ruqayya Rabe’i was three months pregnant when a mob of Israelis invaded the village where she lives. She spoke with Jacobin about her lost pregnancy and how settler violence seeks to destroy the basis of Palestinian life.

Denver Library Workers Unionize With Overwhelming Vote

Paolo Zialcita Denverite
Nearly 600 workers at Denver Public Library will be represented by a collective bargaining unit after employees voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming Denver’s first union under newly afforded labor rights.

Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetry of Antifascism

Jeremy Wang-Iverson Rain Taxi
This new collection of essays, articles, and radio scripts should help bring renewed attention to this too-little-known modernist left wing poet and writer.

Glacier Time Bombs

Robert Hunziker CounterPunch
In High Mountain Asia, there are thousands of glaciers at some stage of transforming into large lakes that may burst, barreling down mountainsides. The recent Nepal incident is but a warning,

The Gutting of Higher Education – What’s Left of the New School?

Jeremy Varon Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.