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The Original Donald Trump

Frank Rich New York Magazine
The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president.

The Outcome in Arizona

Eric Blanc,Rebecca Garelli, Noah Karvelis, Dylan Wegela Jacobin
After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

97 Fatal Encounters: Border Agent Violence Across America

Sarah Macaraeg The Guardian
Members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
In the last 15 years agents with the Customs and Border Protection Agency have used deadly force in states up to 160 miles from the border, from Maine to California. These Customs and Border Protection encounters have proven deadly for at least 97 people – citizens and non-citizens – since 2003.

Friday Nite Videos -- December 16, 2016

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Daryl Davis, Race & America | Movie Trailer. Everybody Knows | Leonard Cohen. ¡Cuba! Exhibition Now Open. The Brilliant Life of Ada Lovelace #OrdinaryWomen. My President Was Black.

Everybody knows | Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen's lyrics are both prophetic and startlingly contemporary: Everybody knows that the war is over / Everybody knows the good guys lost / Everybody knows the fight was fixed / The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / That's how it goes / Everybody knows

¡Cuba! Exhibition Now Open

Its complex politics and vibrant music have attracted the attention of the world. But Cuba, the largest island nation in the Caribbean, is also home to the unexpected. It’s a place of stunning contrasts: mysterious caves and bright boulevards, sweltering fields and cool forests, hard challenges and high energy.