Bernie Sanders’s Five-Year War
Jacobin
How he lost and where we go from here.
Imagining a World With No Bullshit Jobs
Roar
Author David Graeber passed away several days ago. We are reprinting this interview with him about his book, "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Trump’s Secretary of State Tries to Extort Cash from Struggling Sudan
Responsible Statecraft
Mike Pompeo’s trip to the Middle East and North Africa was a scandalous failure. His Sudan visit demonstrates just how degraded the United States’ foreign policy has become under Donald Trump, and with Pompeo at the helm of the State Department.
An Extraordinary Summer of Crises for California’s Farmworkers
National Geographic
The “essential workers” picking our food are facing fires, heat waves, and the pandemic, all at once. California’s farmworkers, many undocumented, and many without a choice, have been working through a summer of increasingly brutal conditions.
The Black Led “Defund the Police” Movement Wins Great Breakthrough in Los Angeles: An Organizer’s Interpretation
CounterPunch
The Los Angeles School Board voted to cut $70 million a year budget of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) by $25 million—35%—and move those funds to programs focused on the needs of Black students.
We Should Still Defund the Police
The New Yorker
Defunding the police is the first step in a longer process that may culminate in the end of policing in the United States. The repeated failure of meaningful reform have made concepts like “defunding” and “abolition” part of mainstream conversation.
Friday Nite Videos | September 4, 2020
RNC 2020 and Kenosha. 'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Sings 'Grandma's Hands'. Soledad O'Brien Helps Translate Tucker Carlson's Kenosha Rant. The Problem With Banning TikTok. David Graeber ('We Are the 99%) in His Own Words.
RNC 2020 and Kenosha
The Republican National Convention, shootings in Kenosha and a strike in professional sports -- three stories that are really one story, about race in America
'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Sings 'Grandma's Hands'
Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020) sings Grandma's Hands on "Popcorn With Peter Travers" after talking about the making of Marvel's newest superhero film.
Soledad O'Brien Helps Translate Tucker Carlson's Kenosha Rant
Hot Take discusses Trump's culpability in nationwide violence and Tucker Carlson's abhorrent comments on the Kenosha protests
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