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January 29, 2022

Water for All

Kendall Dix People's Policy Project

Americans regularly lose access to water simply because they are poor and unable to pay their bills. Water bills are cruel and unnecessary. We should just get rid of them.

January 29, 2022

Workers Just Won a Rare Supreme Court Victory Against Wall Street

Matthew Cunningham-Cook Jacobin

The Supreme Court isn’t a friend of workers. So a recent ruling that retirees can sue employers who help investment firms rip them off with high fees and poor performance is a rare and crucial win.

January 29, 2022

It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty

Alice Kim Truthout

“Society loses its moral grounds when we stoop to the actions of the most broken people to punish those who hurt people. But I’m living proof that hurt people not only hurt people — we can heal.”

January 29, 2022

Looking for the Casus Belli to Justify War in Ukraine

Tommaso Di Francesco il manifesto

What is the pretext that the US and NATO are looking for? Because it seems clear that the climate of uncertainty, in this dangerous moment, is rife for precisely such a pretextual scenario.

January 29, 2022

‘I Was So Close to the Sky. It Was Spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on Jazz Landmark, The Bridge, at 60

John Fordham The Guardian

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play.

July 28, 2017