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This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31

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Cartoon showing the personification of "Congress" wearing a top hat using a bull whip to drive Liberty down the Capitol steps
No Free Speech on Christmas (1919), Killing Babies Is the Ugliest War Crime (1969), Can the Media Help Defend Democracy Again? (1974), Young Lords Speak Truth to Power (1969), A Highway to Nowhere (1949), Russia’s Leader for 25 Years (since 1999)

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan

Chad Pearson Jacobin
Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.