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Democrats Caved In the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster

Corey Robin Jacobin
For Democrats, the main issue in the shutdown wasn’t electoral backlash — it was the filibuster. Leadership feared its removal, viewing it as a safeguard to keep the party’s rising left wing in check.

Thousands of UC Employees Plan Strike To Protest Wage Stagnation

Vanguard Staff Vanguard
More than 65,000 University of California campus and health center employees will launch a two-day strike on November 17 and 18 over the university’s failure to settle contracts addressing the cost of living and affordability crises facing its most

Before the Next Crisis

Joelene Pynnonen Independent Review of Books
This study of the Covid-19 pandemic looks for ways that public health officials and political figures can lessen the negative impacts of similar events in the future.

Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules

Freddy Brewster and Luke Goldstein The Lever
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

Teaching at Trump’s Version of Columbia

Helen Benedict LA Progressive
The university at large has sold out our students. But there are hundreds of faculty on this campus dedicated to the right of our students to learn, debate, protest, research, and report without fear.

There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank

Mairav Zonszein The New York Times
The United Nations reported that this October — peak olive harvest season in the West Bank — saw the highest number of settler attacks in the area since it began documenting them in 2006. Over 260 attacks were recorded, an average of eight per day.