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The Cranberry Caucus is Insanely Powerful

Dan Nosowitz Modern Farmer
You may not know that there is such a thing as the Congressional Cranberry Caucus.
...the cranberry industry is saying that it is unfair for them to have to correctly label their added sugars, because a product, like raisins naturally have a high sugar content, and thus (correctly) do not need to use the “added sugar” phrasing.

The Trial of Thomas Hardy

Ian Angus Monthly Review
A Forgotten Chapter in the Working-Class Fight for Democratic Rights

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

Slavery’s Lessons for the Supreme Court and the DACA case

Jamal Greene and Elora Mukherjee Los Angeles Times
“Dreamers” attend a news conference at US Capitol.
The DACA case involves some legal uncertainty. And while there are obvious differences between slavery and deportation, the way antebellum courts in free states thought about the security of their brown-skinned residents is instructive.