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How Movements Survive

Zach D. Roberts The Progressive
In her new book, Molly Crabapple shares the history of the Jewish Bund.

Before the Punk Rockers, There Were the Working-Class Teds

Max Décharné Jacobin
British class society had a dress code: the rich could be flashy,workers were expected to wear a drab uniform. In the 1950s, England’s working-class Teddy Boys and Girls boldly donned pompadours and velvet, giving birth to modern British subculture

War Dollars, Care Dollars (and No Sense)

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
It seems like a good time to compare the running tally of war dollars with the cost of relentless attacks on public care provision in the United States.

Years of Meddling in Cuba and Nicaragua

Edward Hunt Foreign Policy in Focus
Establishment leaders are doing everything they can to save an organization that not only meddles in sovereign countries but is willing to go rogue.

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Overconfidence Is How Wars Are Lost

Monica Duffy Toft The Conversation
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. One of the oldest and most lethal traditions in international politics is the catastrophic gap between what leaders believe going in and what war actually delivers.