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April 3, 2021

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

Erica X Eisen Boston Review

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

April 3, 2021

Desmond Meade is on a Mission to Restore the Voting Rights of Formerly Incarcerated People in Florida

Chandra Thomas Whitfield Prism

Activist and Florida Rights Restoration Coalition president is doing the work to make sure his state’s disenfranchised due to felony convictions, regain their power.

April 3, 2021

Egyptian Writer and Activist Nawal El Saadawi Dies at 89

People's Dispatch

An academic and a radical voice of feminism and anti-imperialism in the Arab world, she was constantly persecuted by the Egyptian state and religious fanatics for her writings.

April 3, 2021

The Good White Christian Women of Nazi Germany

D. L. Mayfield Christian Century

Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist.

April 3, 2021

Why We Need Stuart Hall’s Imaginative Left

Jessica Loudis The New Republic

Why We Need Stuart Hall’s Imaginative Left. A pioneer of cultural studies, Hall showed a generation how to meld identity and Marxism.

April 2, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | April 2, 2021

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Why Matt Gaetz Is a Product of the Modern Republican Party | Mehdi Hasan. Louis Armstrong - Go Down Moses (Lyrics). Cranky Uncle's 5 Techniques of Science Denial. Lawsuits Put 45 in 'Serious Trouble.' Does My Neighborhood Determine My Future?

Why Matt Gaetz Is a Product of the Modern Republican Party | Mehdi Hasan

April 2, 2021

"The reason we are where we are today is because the old school Republicans didn't stand up to the crazies. They embraced them, however uneasily."

Louis Armstrong - Go Down Moses (Lyrics)

April 2, 2021

The story of Passover sounds a universal note of struggle against oppression.

Cranky Uncle's 5 Techniques of Science Denial

April 2, 2021

An introduction to the five techniques of science denial: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, and conspiracy theories

Lawsuits Put 45 in 'Serious Trouble'

April 2, 2021

The legal pressure on citizen Trump is escalating as two Capitol Hill police officers are now suing the former president, alleging he incited the January 6 insurrection.