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A Look at Two Towns, Two Storms and America's Imperiled Poor

Zack Colman and Daniel Cusick E&E News
Workers throw away debris and ruined possessions from a public housing project in Texas.
Hurricanes have done it before, decimating critical shares of an already limited housing stock for financially vulnerable people. Hurricanes Harvey and Florence are the latest to damage public housing and displace its poor residents.

Yankees Cross Picket Line

Kristin LaFratta Mass Live
'An insult to all working people in Boston;' union lambasts Yankees for crossing Marriott hotel workers' picketing line

Sixteen Shots and a Conviction

Micah Uetricht and Rachel Johnson Jacobin
Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot Laquan McDonald sixteen times, has been found guilty of murder. It's a major victory for Chicago activists and the broader movement against police brutality.

German History and Trump's Enablers

Richard E. Frankel History News Network
One of the most important lessons that German history has to offer is less about Hitler than about those around him, many of whom were not even Nazis. The enablers also bear responsibility.