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Trump and Russia: Shortest Reset Ever

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus
In Trump, the Kremlin got what it wanted — an America paralyzed by an incompetent administration at odds with more than half the country’s population.

It’s Only My Health

Olivia Alperstein OtherWords.org
I'm one of the millions who could lose access to health care if Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act.

From Bad to Worse for Puerto Rico

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin Guzman Project Syndicate
The plan by the oversight board for Puerto Rico will depress the economy further and fuel a debt spiral, in which Puerto Ricans, US taxpayers, and in the long run, even the creditors will lose

My Mother Cleans and Starts the Gumbo

Karen Maceira Lindenwood Review
"What does it mean to have/a child in prison?" asks New Orleans poet Karen Maceira, observing how her mother answers and can't answer that question.

What Would Mark Twain Think of Donald Trump?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom The Conversation
Twain felt that no one was too grand to be satirized. “Irreverence,” he wrote, “is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.”

The Three Trumps

Jeffrey D. Sachs Project Syndicate
Perhaps all three Trumps – friend of Putin, wealth maximizer, and demagogue – are really one

Ni Una Menos -- A Day Without a Woman -- Renews Our Revolution

Lea Melandri il manifesto
Although the feminist revolution could have crushed the patriarchy and capitalism, the corresponding political movement was fatally fragmented from ts inception because of the breadth of its themes. But yesterday's international women’s strike recombined the spirit of the movement in a vision that encompasses everything: sexual and reproductive self-determination, job insecurity, migration, femicide and male violence, sexism, racism and homophobia.