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Amazon Is Getting Into the Business of Medicare Privatization

Matthew Cunningham-Cook Jacobin
Amazon has announced it is acquiring One Medical, a private equity–backed primary care provider that generates most of its revenue from a for-profit Medicare program. It’s a terrifying sign of Amazon’s continued expansion and the privatization of Medicare.

Ms. Marvel Powerfully Portrays the Pain of Partition

Maryam Ahmad Nerdist
Ms. Marvel made the lasting trauma and division after Partition a significant conversation, introducing many to its horrors. Partition impacted millions of people in 1947. Generations later, we are still unpacking how it continues to resonate.

Take Away the President’s Immunity

Bob Bauer The Atlantic
No legal doctrine should shield anyone—including Donald Trump, if reelected—from prosecution for criminal wrongdoing.

U.A.W. Says Nissan Workers Seek a Union Vote in Mississippi

NOAM SCHEIBER and BILL VLASIC The New York Times
"On Tuesday, the U.A.W. said a petition for a union election had been filed by employees at a Nissan plant in Mississippi with more than 6,000 workers. They asked for a vote within a month."

The Spy Who Funded Me

Patrick Iber Los Angeles Review of Books
The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was a well-known Cold War era CIA-sponsored organization whose role was to promote an international anti-communist, pro-US cultural policy. This latest study examines the well-funded and influential intellectual periodicals the CCF bankrolled all over the world.

Looking Historically at the White Working Class

David Gilbert Abolition Journal
We white radicals have a particular responsibility and crying need to organize as many white people as possible to break from imperialism and to see that their long term interests, as human beings and for a livable future for their children, lie in allying with the rest of humanity.