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Redefining Freedom With Robin Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley, Omari Weekes The Nation
A conversation with the historian about the 20th-anniversary of his seminal book Freedom Dreams, how the meaning of freedom has changed in the intervening years, the reparations debate, and more.

Returnees Who’ve Served Decades in Prison Need Help

Roach Brown The Washington Informer
With virtually nothing but the clothes on their backs, many inmates are placed on a bus, given $50, known as ‘gate money,’ and if they’re lucky, they may be told to have a nice life. 

Can Democrats Stop a Return to Nationalist White Nativism?

Paul Garver Chartist
The strategy of Bernie Sanders and members of the Congressional Squad is clear: grow the democratic socialist/progressive bloc in Congress and Democratic Party; stand up for the multiracial working class; and resist creeping fascism on every front.

Reparations as a Construction Project

Alexandra Tempus The Progressive
An interview with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his climate justice-centered framework for ‘remaking the world.’ -- "What I hope is becoming clearer as the climate crisis accelerates is that you actually can’t buy a new ecology.”

That Cardboard Box Is Fueling Election Denial

Justin Elliott, Megan O’Matz and Doris Burke Pro Publica
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60

Edited by Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive
Documents Record how Kennedy Administration Buried Quid Pro Quo that Resolved Missile Crisis Letters Implicate President Kennedy as Author of Political Attack On U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson