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‘Warrior’ Is Still the Best Show You’re Not Watching

Miles Surrey The Ringer
Warrior explores America’s racial history and its intersection with the immigrant experience—it shows how, in a nation of immigrants, nonwhite people are seldom considered “American” by their white peers.

Can You Still Transmit COVID-19 after Vaccination?

Zaria Gorvett BBC
There's no evidence that any of the current Covid-19 vaccines can completely stop people from being infected – and this has implications for our prospects of achieving herd immunity.

Coop Naysayers as “Religious” Thinkers Who Keep the System Going

Jonathan Michael Feldman The Global Teach-In
Cooperatives historically have provided an option when few alternatives to exploitation were available. In contrast, today some leftists would deny women and others these options because of a promise of what social movement activity could bring.

What Trump’s Prosecution Omits

Jules Bernstein The American Prospect
House prosecutors should make clear that Trump’s conduct wasn’t merely ‘dastardly,’ but specifically criminal.

Why India’s Farmers’ Protests Have Sikhs Fearing Violent Attacks

Sunny Hundal OpenDemocracy
In December, Indian farmers march to Delhi to protest recent legislation.
Since India’s farmers protests began last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government has tried to violently suppress them, revealing how close “the world’s largest democracy” is to becoming an authoritarian state.

California’s Essential Workers Get Bumped Down Vaccination Line

Mark Kreidler Capital & Main
A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, CA.
Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.