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Punching Down and Republican Corruption

Heather Cox Richardson Letters From an American: August 16 2024
Republican dominance is cracking as Trump struggles and Vance offends people, and as that dominance falls away, the many things it covered are starting to get attention—among them, stories of Republican corruption. And they’re doozies.  

Unpacking JD Vance’s Labor Record

John Fry, Holden Hopkins , Jacqueline Rayfield On Labor
Vance has similarly drawn distinctions between “good unions” like police unions, and “bad unions” like Starbucks Workers United. Vance has a pattern of claiming to support workers while criticizing their democratically elected leadership.

Will the Senate Take Off the Handcuffs?

David Dayen The American Prospect
The Harris-Walz ticket and every Democrat are promising big things. But the filibuster makes that agenda impossible. Will they finally remove that barrier?

Into the Hush

Esther Kamkar
"…wherever you are is called here," writes poet Esther Kamkar in this era of refugees and immigrations, "and you must treat it as a powerful/ stranger."