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US Economy Faces Hit from Climate Change, Report Warns

Coral Davenport and Kendra Pierre-Louis The New York Times
Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.

Freedom of Assembly Still Matters

Jan-Werner Mueller Project Syndicate
Protests are essential to the democratic experience and can never be replaced by online activism or voting.

Lies, Damn Lies and Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre The Conversation
Any amateur politician can engage in lying. Trump is engaging in “post-truth.” Ideology takes precedence over reality.

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The Skokie March That Wasn’t - Lessons for Today

Isaac Brosilow Jewish Currents
Skokie and the Nazis - there were massive counter-demonstrations, black and Jewish solidarity, Holocaust survivors who vowed to confront the Nazis in the streets, and a grassroots of proud, leftist Jews.This untold history offers lessons for today.