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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras

Eric Umansky, with additional reporting by Umar Farooq Propublica, co-published with The New York Times Magazine
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.

Industrial Policy Isn’t a Panacea for Rebuilding Organized Labor

David Karas Jacobin
Faced with China’s rise, Western states are turning from free trade dogmas to active industrial policies. This turn may offer opportunities for labor — but as the electric auto industry shows, it is also producing a harmful logic of national rivalri

Starbucks Ordered To Reopen 23 Stores

Julia Conley Common Dreams
"This complaint is the latest confirmation of Starbucks' determination to illegally oppose workers' organizing," said one unionized employee.

The Leftist Case for Collecting

Charlie Squire The Progressive
The desire to collect is the desire to understand objects as vehicles for human expression, the physical manifestation of labor, knowledge, collaboration, and movement.