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How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People

David Dayen The American Prospect
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

Tidbits-Aug. 27: Reader Comments: Trade War – With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega Post; 9 to 5; Resource – Election Defense Scenarios; What Is Democratic Socialism?;

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Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...

Why 9 to 5 Still Resonates Today

Karen Nussbaum Convergence
A documentary goes inside the making of the classic labor-feminist movie 9 to 5 — and shows how many of the problems it lampooned still plague working women today.

How To Fix the System

Steven Poole The Guardian
The Nobel-winning economist takes aim at elites for no longer meeting the needs of the masses.