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April 22, 2017

The Looming Writers Strike Is About Much More Than What’s On TV

David Dayen In These Times

Writers are fighting concentrated power brokers who have devised all sorts of ways to maintain a stranglehold on the billions of people worldwide who fork over money to watch their favorite characters.

April 21, 2017

Lament

Debra Marquart New Letters

Earth Day on our minds, what can be more rueful than what's happened to the once-ignored state of North Dakota, fracked to its core? Poet Debra Marquart sings a lament.

April 21, 2017

Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion From Science

Rosalyn R. LaPier The Conversation

For many Native Americans, myth and medicine, religion and science, are not viewed as separate, but are interwoven into the fabric of our lives.

April 21, 2017

Latest GOP Health Plan Is Comical, But Deadly

Eugene Robinson The Washington Post

A draft framework being circulated this week would pretend to keep the parts of Obamacare that people like, but allow states to take these benefits away.

April 21, 2017

Jeff Sessions Thinks Hawaii Is Not a Real State

Dahlia Lithwick Slate

There is a long, overtly racist history of discrediting the legitimacy of Hawaii’s statehood that Sessions has just tapped into.

April 21, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | April 21, 2017

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Bernie: 'Our Job Is to Radically Transform the Democratic Party'. John Oliver | French Elections. Ode to Joy in Nuremburg. Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi. A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists.