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Big Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill

Rebecca Wolf The Progressive
They've turned the food system into a cash cow for the powerful few by undermining small farmers and encouraging operators to “get big or get out.”

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution

Sarah Lyall New York Times
Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 19–25

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Thomas Nast cartoon of racist Georgians celebrating in 1868
Terror reigns in Georgia (in 1868). The First Great Depression (1873). First-ever Vietnam War protest (1963). The Redcoats are coming! (1768). A worthless piece of paper (1823). Nuke fallout treaty (1963). Deadly troop train (1918)

The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs.

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide

Peter Kornbluh The Nation
Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.