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Treason, Shmeason: Trump Backs Fort Benedict Arnold

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
These bases are named after Confederate generals not because they personified either victory or freedom. They were named to reflect the politics of the viciously white racist South decades after the Civil War had ended.

Invade Us, Canada | The Daily Show

America needs a return to democracy. And if there's one thing America knows, it's that when a country needs democracy, you invade it.

Police | John Oliver

As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.

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Who Cares? Now, All of Us Must

Ai-jen Poo The New York Review of Books
Domestic work and care work have historically been underpaid and overlooked, and the fact that even today this labor is often referred to as “help” rather than conceived as professional labor betrays the long devaluation of women’s work. T