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Sesame Street With Donald Grump

Given Mr. Trump's recent, ahem, "popularity," this Sesame Street episode about Donald Grump has renewed relevance.

The Flint Disaster Is Rick Snyder’s Fault

Dana Milbank The Washington Post
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder undertook an arrogant public-policy experiment, underpinned by the ideological assumption that the “experience set” of corporate-style managers was superior to the checks and balances of democracy. This is why Flint happened.

Does the Bern Go Deep Enough?

Mike Konczal The Nation
Bernie Sanders' plan would break up the biggest banks. But strong banking reform could do more. Here are three ways he can make his plan a real threat to the finance industry.

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Nathan Hoks Matter: A (somewhat) monthly journal
Chicago poet Nathan Hoks shows a keen understanding of bad things going on in our times and then takes it all a surreal step beyond or maybe not.

What Can Be Learned from Hillary Clinton's Slurs Against Reconstruction

Ryan Cooper The Week
Monday night, Hillary Clinton butchered Reconstruction's history. It's a good opportunity to correct the record, and glean why Lincoln really was America's greatest president. Reconstruction in reality was a briefly successful attempt to build a true democracy in the South. Clinton implies that it was Southern anger at unjust Reconstruction policy that led them to institute Jim Crow, but Jim Crow was the goal from the very end of the war.

BDS is Not Anti-Semitic - Solidarity with UAW Local 2865

Karen Ackerman Jewish Voice for Peace
UAW Local 2865 took a brave stand for BDS -- but their decision was undemocratically overturned by the UAW International Executive Board. Help us send a strong message - that Jews and allies around the world stand for BDS, and with Local 2865. BDS - a time-honored, non-violent form of political protest, supported by millions around the world. The labor movement stood in solidarity with the people of South Africa, Local 2865 has bravely stood with the people of Palestine.