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Beware Corporate Democrats “Passing the Torch”

Norman Solomon Common Dreams
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but that affiliation for the heir apparent to the current House Speaker should not be taken at face value.

COVID-19 in China and Global Concern

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist
It’s clear that the ever-stricter measures in China are failing to keep up with more-transmissible variants while becoming increasingly costly to society. This has caused country-wide protests sparked by frustration, anger, discontent, and despair.

The Culture Workers Go on Strike

Alissa Quart The New Republic
From the New School to museums and book publishers, we’re witnessing the black-turtleneck-worker uprising.

Unions Aren't Obsolete, They're Being Crushed by Right-Wing Politics

Livia Gershon VICE
A new report lays out how effective the assault on organized labor has been. The decline of unions—which now represent just over one in ten US workers, down from one in five from 1983—has been less about their value for workers than the result of a concerted effort to destroy the labor movement.

Paul Krugman: The Republican Party May End Up Destroying Human Civilization

lana Novick Alternet
Ultimately Pruitt, Trump and even Rush Limbaugh, who called Irma a "liberal hoax," are only a fraction of the problem. Krugman continues: "Almost every senior figure in the Trump administration dealing with the environment or energy is both an establishment Republican and a denier of climate change and of scientific evidence in general."

On 9/11: How We Slighted the Real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism

Juan Cole Informed Comment
It turns out . . . the real threat to the Homeland did not come from fringe radicals in the Middle East. Americans are more likely to be struck by lighting or fall down in their bathtubs and fatally hit their heads than they are ever to be negatively affected by Middle Eastern terrorism. Where did the real threat come from? From toxic carbon dioxide and methane emissions.