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July 21, 2017

When Organizers Are Professionals

Clement Petitjean Jacobin

Is the transformation of community organizing into a “profession” a barrier to radical political change?

July 21, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | July 21, 2017

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Keegan-Michael Key Brings Luther, Obama's Anger Translator, Out of Retirement. Mia Paz | Shelter. The Best Fox News Explanations for Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting. T-Rex Couldn't Run, But Speed Walked. Trump Turns on Sessions.

Keegan-Michael Key Brings Luther, Obama's Anger Translator, Out Of Retirement

July 21, 2017

Keegan-Michael Key's famous character Luther, Obama's anger translator, rode off into the sunset at the end of the 44th President's second term. Or so we thought...

Mia Paz | Shelter

July 21, 2017

Official music video of Mia Paz performing 'Shelter'

The Best Fox News Explanations for Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting

July 21, 2017

As the Russia story keeps getting worse, we're going to see just how far the network is willing to go to stay on Trump's good side.

July 21, 2017

6-Month Update for Trump Voters

Robert Reich Robert Reich

12 Trump promises, and what's actually become of them.

July 21, 2017

Manafort Was in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests, Cyprus Records Show

Mike McIntire The New York Times

New Cyprus documents offer the most detailed view yet into the murky financial world inhabited by Mr. Manafort in the years before he joined the Trump campaign.

July 21, 2017

Donald Trump Tells His Voter Fraud Panel: Find Me 'Something'

Paul Waldman Daily Beast

After his henchmen droned on about how the commission has no preconceived notions, Trump cut through the cant and commanded them to bring him the dirt.

July 21, 2017

Trump Is Mobilizing for War Against the Rule of Law

Jonathan Chait New York Magazine

He’s certainly behaving like someone who’s hiding something deeply incriminating.

July 21, 2017

Life Jacket

Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad Heart Journal Online

The New York poet Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad offers a soulful Life Jacket to those displaced and forlorn by international tragedies: "remember," she writes, "you were born first/into a province of hope."