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A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

T.J. Clark London Review of Books
If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

Portside
Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg
The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

Nurses and Doctors Are on Strike at Eight Oregon Hospitals

Kari Thompson Labor Notes
5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.

A Public Model for Home Insurance

Moira Birss, MacKenzie Marcelin Dissent Magazine
We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

For Reality

Bill McKibben The Crucial Years
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world