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Eliminating HIV in Black Communities

Kathryn Macapagal, Darnell Motley Scientific American
Trump’s plan to end new HIV/AIDS diagnoses by 2030 misses a key element: prevention

Ducktown: Yet Another Rural Tennessee Town With a Dead Hospital

Brett Kelman Nashville Tennessean
Mayor Jill Holland of McKenzie, Tenn., at a rally against hospital closures.
Tennessee has lost 10 rural hospitals, creating health care deserts for its poor residents. But, newly elected Republican governor Bill Lee resists Medicaid expansion, and he won in all but one of the counties that have experienced hospital closures.

Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism

Fabian Van Onzen Monthly Review
Sweezy adds a layer of historical analysis to the Comintern’s theory of fascism. He does this by defining it as the product of imperialism, which can only develop in the era of monopoly capitalism.

US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports

Oliver Milman The Guardian
In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste.

After the Election, I Lose Desire for Men

Anne Champion Chiron Review
Anne Champion writes of a woman’s rage upon realizing after a certain election “how much the world/would hate me for being a girl…/how much men could get away with."