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No Is Not Enough: Looking Beyond Trump

Sarah Jaffe, Interviews for Resistance The Baffler
"Trump is not the crisis. He is a symptom of the crisis." Interviews for Resistance, Sarah Jaffe with Naomi Klein.

Naomi Klein: ‘Trump is an Idiot, But Don’t Underestimate How Good He is at That’

Tim Adams The Guardian
Trump, she suggests in her new book, No Is Not Enough, exploited that phenomenon (personal branding) to become the first incarnation of president as a brand, doing to the US nation and to the planet what he had first practised on his big gold towers: plastering his name and everything it stands for all over them.

The Supreme Court Just Made Our Messed Up Immigration Law Even Worse

Ian Millhiser Think Progress
The practical consequence of Monday’s decision in Morales-Santana is that fewer children of U.S. citizens will themselves gain citizenship, and that more people will be subject to deportation. It also means that the individual at the heart of this case, Luis Ramón Morales-Santana, is now set to be deported to a nation he has not lived in since 1975.

Future of Unions in Balance as Trump Prepares to Reshape National Labor Board

Nicole Hallett The Conversation
A new Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board could roll back pro-union decisions dating back decades. This could be devastating to already weakened unions. With private sector union membership hovering at a dismal 6.4 percent – down from about 17 percent in 1983 – nothing short of the end of the labor movement could be at stake.