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Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

Linda Greenhouse The New York Review of Books
County sheriffs are useful to the right. They appear regularly as talking heads on conservative media, especially on the subject of immigration. Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

UARCs: The American Universities That Produce Warfighters

Sylvia J. Martin Monthly Review
Relations between universities and the U.S. military are not always mediated by the corporate industrial sector. American universities and the U.S. military are also linked directly and organizationally.

Israel’s New Campaign of “Terrorism Warfare” Across Lebanon

Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous Drop Site
"Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon."

Marathon Oil Teamsters Strike

Keith Brower Brown, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
Marathon workers work four 12-hour days on day shift, take four days off, and then work four days on night shift. “There’s not a doctor in the world that would say that’s a good schedule,” said steward Gino Maniaci.

Trump Says Jews To Blame if He Loses

Jacob Kornbluh Jewish Daily Forward
The speech was supposed to be about antisemitism but instead trafficked in it, Trump’s critics said

Oil Kills:Disrupting the Aviation Industry

Alexandria Shaner Socialist Project
First, the obvious answer: oil kills. And the air travel industry is very, very oily. Aviation is by far the mode of transport with the biggest climate impact. If aviation was a country, it would be one of the top 10 emitters.