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Author Finds Lessons in Detroit’s ‘50-Year Rebellion’

Michael Jackman Detroit Metro Times
In this interview from five years ago, the author of this important book discusses some of the events and policies that have made Detroit a showcase for the neoliberal mode of urban development.

Washington Wants a New Cold War…That’s a Bad Idea

Katrina Vanden Heuvel CounterPunch
Cold War is America’s comfort zone. We won the last one. We wear the white hats. It’s democracy against authoritarianism. And we’ve got the biggest and best military. Who could object?

Bernie to Bolsonaro: Stop Undermining Democracy

Andre Pagliarini Jacobin
With the leftist Lula set to win Brazil’s presidency, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro is sowing doubts about the election process. So now, Bernie Sanders is putting Bolsonaro on notice and insisting the US oppose any government that takes power illegitimately.

Do Women Want to Be Oppressed?

John Horgan Scientific American
Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world

Cold War Revisionism Revisited

Harry Targ Monthly Review
In the early years of the Cold War, the academic study of international relations was an ideological tool serving the foreign policy of the United States and its allies. But in the 1960s, a new generation of scholars began to challenge the reigning orthodoxy.

It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet

Julianne Tveten In These Times
To counter the FCC’s attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating the Internet like the public good it is.