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Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023

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The Corporate Money Behind 'No Labels.' Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry. Henry Kissinger Is 100 and Still Free, Somehow | Mehdi Hasan. After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics. AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough.

Hot Labor Summer

Bill Lipton The Forge
This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles. But it could be more than that. It might also be an opportunity for allies to begin to build a solidarity machine.

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds

Kate Fortmueller Los Angeles Review of Books
While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have historically been the most hard-fought battles. Now there is streaming, and AI.

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Francesca Mari; Photographs by Luca Locatelli The New York Times
Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? The difference is Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the U.S. prioritizes subsidizing people with vouchers

We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner

Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone
Nothing could ever scare the fire out of her voice, which carried the whole story of American music in it. Tina Turner’s voice will never go silent. In the end, she is the big wheel who keeps on turning, forever. The Queen of Rock and Roll.