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Two Immigrant First Amendment Heroes Separated by Three Centuries

Dave Lindorff ThisCantBeHappening!
Rumeysa Ozturk and John Peter Zenger are book ends to the history of the First Amendment — the one that guarantees freedom of speech, association, religion, the right to petition for redress of grievances and freedom of the press.

Can Marketing Magic Help Food Waste Disappear?

David Burrows JustFood.com
A sign in a Tesco store promoted discounted vegetables.
Researchers from Minnesota State University Mankato showed that ‘storytelling’ combined with marketing tactics like coupons “significantly increases consumers’ consumption of unattractive produce”.

Tariffs, Schmariffs

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.

‘Infinite License’

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.

American Universities Are Complicit in Their Own Destruction

Eric Ross Progressive Hub
Last spring, university administrators facilitated the mass arrest of over 3,000 students on more than sixty campuses—an extraordinary repressive response to one of the largest student protest movements in U.S. history.