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The Census Won’t Collect L.G.B.T. Data. That’s a Problem.

By Praveen Fernandes The New York Times
Given the discrimination, social isolation, health disparities and economic fragility that L.G.B.T. populations as a whole face, this need is especially urgent. The data collection rollbacks don’t just prophesy bad policy. They recall a time of deep discrimination and pain that we have spent decades trying to reverse.

The Market Theocracy

Angela Nagle Jacobin
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.

New South Korea leader Moon Jae-in willing to meet Kim in North

Justin McCurry The Guardian
As a former chief of staff under South Korea’s previous liberal president, Roh Moo-hyun, Moon is expected to consider goodwill measures towards the North, including the reopening of the jointly run Kaesong industrial park and the resumption of aid. Moon has also pledged to rein in the power of the chaebol – once-revered companies that are now seen as a symbol of the country’s domestic ills of corruption and inequality.

Friday Nite Videos -- July 22, 2016

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Jon Stewart Takes Over Colbert's Late Show Desk. Elizabeth Warren: 'He Sounded Like a Two-Bit Dictator'. The Clown Has Taken Over the Party. One Year on Earth Seen From 1 Million Miles. Bob Marley | Get Up, Stand Up.

Donald Trump’s Caesar Moment

Jeff Greenfield Politico
Detached from history and fueled by fear, his convention speech was utterly unlike anything we've heard in American politics.

We Still Need a Future to Believe In

Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Michael Moore, and others The Nation
A forum on how to build the political revolution with Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Michael Moore, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Reich, Kshama Sawant, Josh Fox, and more.