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The Solution Is Social Housing

Ryan Cooper, Peter Gowan Jacobin
How can we solve the housing crisis? Simple: have the government build more housing.

Why There Are So Many Bad Sheriffs

Alan Greenblatt Governing
In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.

A Standing Rock on the Border?

Tim Vanderpool The Progressive
The Tohono O’odham tribe has repeatedly cited a border wall’s potential impact upon sacred sites, burial grounds, and the natural environment. A wall would split the tribal homeland down the middle and isolate thousands of members south of the border.

Friday Nite Videos | April 6, 2018

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Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive. Weak Black Women | Robin Thede. Hip Hop or Shakespeare? Documentary | RGB. Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' Animated.

Israel’s Systematic Violence Against Palestinian Women

Greg Shupak Electronic Intifada
The institutionalized destruction of Palestinian women’s lives has thus been an essential feature of the Israeli project. In this regard, Israeli settler-colonialism can be seen as intrinsically anti-feminist and a form of gendered violence.