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Presidential Immunity Didn’t Fall out of a Coconut Tree

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The six Supreme Court justices who invented presidential immunity are not 'conservative.' A series of interventions by Federalist Society judges have rewritten the United States Constitution and democratic rules in favor of plutocratic interests.

This Week in People’s History, Sept 18–24

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Movie poster for documentary film "The Sorrow and the Pity"
The Sorrow and the Pity Rewrites History (1969), The Dawn of Women’s Suffrage (1893), Millions Protest Global Warming (2019), Thelonious Monk’s Musical Signature (1954), An All-Star Cast Says ‘No Nukes!’ (1979), The Chicago Eight on Trial (1969)

Autoworkers Have Made Both Candidates Pay Attention

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Anyone wanting substantive discussion of jobs in last night’s debate was disappointed. But because of the UAW’s organizing and strikes over the past year, both Trump and Harris felt compelled to insist they were the best candidate for autoworkers.

A Prophet for the Poor

Matthew Desmond The New York Review of Books
In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.