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Tennessee Lawmaker Responds to Expulsion from State House

April 7, 2023

Justin Jones: "They thought they would silence us, but in fact they amplified it"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Republicans' "Wokeism" Term

April 7, 2023

AOC talks about Kevin McCarthy, Republican hearings on "wokeism" and Tennessee Republicans expelling Democrats who led protest chants for gun reform.

Mehdi Hasan Debates Matt Taibbi on the 'Twitter Files'

April 7, 2023

Is the 'Twitter Files' story really as big, as damning, as revealing as Matt Taibi and Elon Musk claim it is?

The Corporations Bringing Back Child Labor in America

April 7, 2023

An Iowa bill would allow kids young as 14 to work in meatpacking plants. Our investigation sheds light on its corrupt origins.

The Guardian’s Links to Slavery: ‘That Reality Can’t Be Negotiated With’

April 7, 2023

Historians David Olusoga and Dr Cassandra Gooptar reveal how the Manchester Guardian’s 19th-century founders had connections to transatlantic enslavement

April 7, 2023

A Bomb as an Argument

Boris Kagarlitsky Russian Dissent

A bomb that killed a Russian military blogger echos across past and future

April 7, 2023

The Secrets of Cooperation

Bob Holmes Knowable Magazine

Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.

April 7, 2023

Interview: The Tennessee Representative Expelled for Speaking Against Gun Violence

Adrienne Johnson Martin MLK50

Justin Pearson, was one of two Black representatives ousted from the Tennessee legislature, speaks out before Thursday’s vote: the legislature ‘does not want diversity of people nor diversity of thought, and they do not want democracy.’

April 7, 2023

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica

For over 20 years, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow.

April 7, 2023

Jane LaTour, Fighter for Women in Labor Unions, Dies at 76

John Leland The New York Times

No stranger to blue-collar work herself, she pushed for equality in male-dominated unions and as a writer chronicled the struggles of “sisters in the brotherhoods.”