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Trump’s Flagrant Racism

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
It’s the flip side of Trump’s DEI for incompetent white people.

Why Do Cuts to Medicaid Matter for Americans Over 65?

Jane Tavares; Marc Cohen The Conversation
We are gerontology researchers who study health and financial well-being in later life. We’ve been analyzing what the potential impacts of Medicaid cuts might be.

Tolkien Against the Grain

Gerry Canavan Dissent Magazine
The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

The ‘Disappeared’: Lessons From Latin America

National Security Archive National Security Archive
We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country today to a long history in the Americas of governments’ use of enforced disappearance. Three experts with direct experience provide lessons in how to protest, to mobilize, to fight back.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail to His Son

Mahmoud Khalil The Guardian
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction. Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

This Week in People’s History, May 14–20, 2025

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A campaign button for the May 14, 2000, Million Mom March
Gun Control? What’s That? (2000), Many Bullets, No Justice (1970), Famous But Unknown (1950), What’s In a Name? A Lot (1990), Riot or Rebellion in Miami? (1980), Lay Down that Sword and Shield (1960), Strong-Arm Tactics Aren’t Pretty, But . . (1960)