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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg The New York Times
A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.

This Week in People’s History, Sep 17–23, 2025

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U.S. Marines firing on unarmed Haitian demonstrators
No Way Out for Haiti (1915), Slavers Flex Political Muscles (1850), Decades of Struggle Wins! (1935), Racial Justice Doesn’t Come Easy (1975), A Boycott on Steroids (1939), ‘We Believe in Farmers’ (1985), No ‘Justice’ for Emmett Till (1955)

Colonize Then, Deport Now

Jonathan Ort Africa is a Country
Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

Dennis Overbye The New York Times
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

Trump, Tyranny and the Need for a People’s Program

Richard Rubenstein CounterPunch
We urgently need to create a people’s movement. Meeting locally and nationally, interested Americans of all backgrounds can form “committees of correspondence” to develop ideas, programs and leaders essential for reconstructing American politics.