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We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s

Adam Reiner Taste Cooking
Trader Joe's copying products
Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

Michael Luo The New Yorker
The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza

Norman Solomon CounterPunch
More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to arm the Israeli military in violation of “international and federal law that prohibits complicity in genocide.”

Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage

Craig Medlen Monthly Review
It is the purpose of this article to relate how this creeping stagnation has added its own force in contributing to the monopoly power associated with consolidation and to current wealth disparities.

Unions Get Bigger in Texas

Emily Markwiese The Progressive
Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.