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The Making of the Springfield Working Class

Gabriel Winant The New York Review of Books
Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

What Can Helene’s ‘Biblical’ Flooding Teach

Carl Smith Governing
Historic rainfall that devastated the Southeast was generated by conditions that still exist. What lessons can local governments in other parts of the country take from Helene?

Before Helene, a Perfect Storm of Climate Denialism

Lucy Dean Stockton, Freddy Brewster The Lever
North Carolina was once a climate leader, but more than a decade of Republican and corporate obstruction left the state ill-prepared for the historic disaster.