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Planning from Below

Marta Harnecker and José Bartolomé Monthly Review
A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal

Justice Kagan’s Gerrymandering Dissent

Andy Kroll Rolling Stone
The liberal justice blasted the Supreme Court’s conservatives for abdicating their duty and putting American democracy in danger

Fever Pitch

Craig Sandler Public Citizen
A Surge in Opposition Lobbying and Advocacy Validates the Credibility of the Medicare for All Movement

The Second Democratic Debate

Robert L. Borosage The Nation
Bernie Really Has Transformed the Party. His ideas now frame the debate in the Democratic Party—an extraordinary victory for progressives

EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian Officials Threatened Morsi Days Before Death

David Hearst Middle East Eye
Qusted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and other jailed Muslim Brotherhood members were told to disband the group or face the consequences. Morsi refused to recognize the coup’s legitimacy or disband the Brotherhood. Within days he was dead.

Disrupting Uber

Vic Vaiana Jacobin
Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.

Nostalgia TV

Meghan Lewit Los Angeles Review of Books
From Halt and Catch Fire to The Americans, some of "the best television of the moment is mining the fairly recent past in a meaningful way." Critic Meghan Lewit on what nostalgia for the 1980s and '90s might tell us about who we are now.