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Four Myths About Kamala Harris’s Loss

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
In assessing Donald Trump’s victory, pundits have claimed the country turned right, the Harris campaign was too far left and woke, Biden’s presidency was robustly populist, and racism and sexism made the result inevitable. Those claims are all wrong.

Billionaires Take Center Stage After US Elections

Philippe Alcoy Left Voice
More present than ever in this year’s presidential campaigns, billionaires seem poised to play a more direct role in the U.S. government. Is this reminiscent of post-Soviet restructuring in the heart of imperialism?

The Sense of an Endling

Tim Flannery The New York Review of Books
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

The LEADER Never Apologizes, Even to God

Carl Davidson LeftLinks
Donald Trump, our President-elect, is the head teacher of the Führerprinzip, the ‘Leader Principle.’ We only get to have one of them, nor do we need any more. ‘The Leader’ is all-knowing and infallible.

This Week in People’s History, Nov 20–26

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Did Wall Street Want FDR’s Ouster? (1934), A first for Song’s First Lady (1934), Tamir Rice Would Be 22 (2014), Women Workers Stand Up (1909), AFL Jump-Starts the Cold War (1944), Standing Up for Press Freedom (1929), The Gap Just Gets Bigger (2019

Framed: Innocents in U.S. Prisons

Walter G. Moss LA Progressive
Our problem with “innocents in U. S. prisons” shows more signs of increasing rather than diminishing.