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Ariel Dorfman: Chile is Taking the Final Steps of Dismantling Dictatorship

Ariel Dorfman Institute for Policy Studies
In Chile, as in the US, marches against poverty, the striving for racial equity, the call to address the ravages of climate desolation, the demand that funds be spent on people not war are aimed at the neo-liberal order first enacted by Pinochet.

From Abortion to Voting, Texas Is Set on Making It Illegal to Help People

Dahlia Lithwick and Scott Pilutik Slate
S.B. 8 sets its sights on anyone who “aids and abets,” so as to isolate the most vulnerable seeking an abortion. S.B. 1 similarly creates criminal consequences for those seeking to offer help to confused, non-English-speaking, or disabled voters.

Friday Nite Videos | October 1, 2021

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Rudy Giuliani Is Banned From Fox News, But Not From the Late Show! Congresswomen Share Personal Abortion Stories. Joe Manchin's Yacht Surrounded by West Virginian Protesters. Amazon Empire. Beethoven Xth Symphony: The AI Project.

Manchin: One Mean Megalomaniac

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Manchin's modest proposal would means-test all new programs and put spending caps on all existing programs. In short, Manchin wants to diminish not just the quantity of necessary social investments, but their quality as well.

The Verdict on Vaccine Mandates: They Work

Sharon Otterman and Joseph Goldstein New York Times
Faced with a New York State mandate to get vaccinated in order to hold their jobs, thousands of N.Y. hospital and nursing home workers got vaccinated ahead of the deadline.