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The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino

Eileen Jones Jacobin
With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.

The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee

Levi Rickert Native News Online
Today (12/29) marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890.

Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesn’t Make Sense

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New York’s Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.

The Narco-Terrorist Elite

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

What’s in a Year

Sarah Jaffe
This world feels fragile like a bomb right now, one misstep could detonate, and yet it makes me think of one of my favorite revolutionary cliches, too: be careful with one another so you can be dangerous together.