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Q: Into the Storm

March 19, 2021

A labyrinthine journey to uncover the forces behind QAnon, revealing how “Q” uses information warfare to game the internet, hijack politics and manipulate people’s thinking. #QIntotheStorm premieres March 21 at 9PM on HBO Max.

The Biggest Deficit You’ve Never Heard Of | Robert Reich

March 19, 2021

The public investment deficit is the gap between what we should be investing in our future — on infrastructure, education, and basic research — and the relatively little we are investing.

March 19, 2021

Manufacturing Isn’t Coming Back. Let’s Improve These Jobs Instead.

Gabriel Winant The New York Times

Cartoon of a crowd of health care workers holding a sign: CARE REVOLUTION

Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions.

March 19, 2021

A Thank You and a Message of Hope

Portside

Where do we go in the coming year? We hope to begin to turn vision into reality. To not only turn the page, but to begin a new chapter.

March 19, 2021

Luchtfietser [Daydreamer]

Robert Perry Coronagedicht

One year after people began to quarantine, Robert Perry’s poetry captures the slow realization as one day passes into the next how daydreaming eases the loneliness.

March 18, 2021

The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age

Laura Hecht-Felella

The Supreme Court’s Carpenter ruling can shape privacy protections for new technologies.

March 18, 2021

Asian Americans Have Been Verbally and Physically Attacked, Shunned During Pandemic, Study Shows

Anh Do; Race Forward

Since coronavirus shutdowns began last March, thousands of Asian Americans have faced racist verbal and physical attacks or have been shunned. Tuesday evening a white gunman in Atlanta, killed eight people—six of whom were women of Asian descent...

March 18, 2021

The Alabama Workers Trying to Unionize an Amazon Fulfillment Center

Charles Bethea The New Yorker

South of Birmingham, warehouse employees are voting on whether to form a union. Their decision could have ripple effects around the country. A seven-week balloting period began last month and will end on March 29th.

March 18, 2021

This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like

Kate Aronoff The New Republic

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.

March 18, 2021

The Public Sector We Need

Jeff Faux Dissent Magazine

To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.