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From Abortion to Voting, Texas Is Set on Making It Illegal to Help People

Dahlia Lithwick and Scott Pilutik Slate
S.B. 8 sets its sights on anyone who “aids and abets,” so as to isolate the most vulnerable seeking an abortion. S.B. 1 similarly creates criminal consequences for those seeking to offer help to confused, non-English-speaking, or disabled voters.

Ariel Dorfman: Chile is Taking the Final Steps of Dismantling Dictatorship

Ariel Dorfman Institute for Policy Studies
In Chile, as in the US, marches against poverty, the striving for racial equity, the call to address the ravages of climate desolation, the demand that funds be spent on people not war are aimed at the neo-liberal order first enacted by Pinochet.

A hard loss and a triumph: Berlin Bulletin No. 196

Victor Grossman Monthly Review
The big questions are now: can the Left become a street and shop level fighter in coming struggles? Can it maintain its positions against armaments and military interference around the globe?

The Verdict on Vaccine Mandates: They Work

Sharon Otterman and Joseph Goldstein The New York Times
Faced with a New York State mandate to get vaccinated in order to hold their jobs, thousands of N.Y. hospital and nursing home workers got vaccinated ahead of the deadline.

Manchin: One Mean Megalomaniac

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Manchin's modest proposal would means-test all new programs and put spending caps on all existing programs. In short, Manchin wants to diminish not just the quantity of necessary social investments, but their quality as well.

Friday Nite Videos | October 1, 2021

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