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Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It

Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston The New York Times
For many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.

Jan. 6 Committee: Four Grave Crimes of Donald Trump

Jamie Raskin Portside
Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. More than sufficient evidence exists of Donald Trump assisting or aiding and comforting a violent attack on the United States.

Why Biden Must Confront Corporate Employers More Directly

Jon Hiatt onlabor
It is not too late for Biden to use the full powers of his presidency to confront employers who force workers to choose between protecting their health or retaining their jobs — and to challenge them in other matters as well.

Charlene Mitchell, Leader of the Campaign To Free Angela Davis

Mitchell family Portside
Charlene (Alexander) Mitchell, a key leader of the movement in the early 1970s to free imprisoned activist Angela Davis, helped found NAARPR, and the CCDS, ran for President in 1968 on the U.S. Communist Party ticket.

All Pain and No Gain From Higher Interest Rates

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate
In the name of taming inflation, central banks have deliberately set themselves on a path to cause a recession – or to worsen it if it comes anyway. Worse, today's monetary-policy tightening will leave long-lasting scars, there are better responses.

Shadowboxing and Geopolitics on the Dark Web

Mohar Chatterjee Politico
The takedown of a Russian darknet marketplace exposed cracks within the cyber-criminal underworld — and the global effort to shut down these digital black markets.

‘We Must Unite Our Continent’

Kyeretwie Opoku People's Dispatch
From December 8-10, members of political parties, trade unions, community-based organizations, women’s groups, other social movements across West Africa gathered in Winneba, Ghana to participate in the West African People For A New World conference.