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Lives on the Line: An Interview With Alice Driver

Alice Driver, Olivia Paschal Facing South
Reporter Alice Driver’s new book “The Life and Death of the American Worker” is an accounting of the lives and working conditions faced by poultry and meatpacking workers in Arkansas, where Tyson Foods is headquartered.

A Libertarian Fantasy in the Tropics

Bruce Nissen The Stansbury Forum
Rightwing libertarians around the world are attempting to erode and virtually erase governmental measures that protect both people and the environment from corporate misconduct and unrestrained capitalism.

The GOP’s Sisyphean Punishment for Supporting Trump

Marc Elias Democracy Docket
The political professionals remaining in the GOP insist that mail-in voting is part of their get-out-the-vote program even as Trump vilifies mail-in voting. To defeat Trump, pro-democracy voters need to actually get out the early and mail-in vote.

This Week in People’s History, Sept 11–17

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Cover of sheet Saint Louis Blues sheet music
I Hate to See the Evenin' Sun Go Down (1914), Take National Defense Day and Shove It! (1924), Apartheid on the Skids (1989), Death of an Organizer (1929), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (1964), Big Win for Solidarity (1889), Moses of Her People (1849)

Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine

Barry Yourgrau The Nation
After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.