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NFL Anthem Policy, Union Grievance on Hold

Danny Heifetz The Ringer
Just hours after apparent confusion over the Miami Dolphins’ disciplinary-policy proposals sparked outcry, the league and the NFLPA announced on Thursday that no new rules related to the anthem “will be issued or enforced”

The 90 Million Gallon Nuclear Tragedy That Nobody Knows About

Linda Pentz Gunter Beyond Nuclear International
A warning sign at Church Rock after the 1979 uranium tailings disaster.
The uranium tailings spill at Church Rock, NM was the largest single release of radioactive contamination in US history. But the radioactive spill in this small Native American farming community is the nuclear accident that almost no one knows about.

Counties Cancel ICE Detention Contracts

David Bacon The American Prospect
After hearing the news of the impending closure of the immigrant detention center, the families of a dozen detainees and their supporters held a rally outside. But advocates want detainees freed, not sent to for-profit jails.

Can a New Left Movement Shift Israeli Politics?

Hannah Pollin-Galay The Nation
Standing Together is uniting Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in a shared struggle for economic and political justice. To create such a coalition requires a meaningful cultural change.

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The Urgency of a Third Reconstruction

Robert Greene Dissent Magazine
The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.