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Politics Is the Solution

M. Erickson, K Hill, M Karp, C Kilpatric, B Sunkara Jacobin
We can’t move to Canada or hide under the bed. This is a moment to embrace democratic politics, not repudiate them.

Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have to Lose? Everything

Harry Belafonte The New York Times
What old men know, too, is that all that is gained can be lost. Lost just as the liberation that the Civil War and Emancipation brought was squandered after Reconstruction, by a white America grown morally weary, or bent on revenge.

What Unions Want to See the Next President Prioritize First

Connor D. Wolf InsideSources
Unions are still fighting for several key policies that have yet to be achieved. The next president could determine where labor regulations and the economy go from here. Labor unions hope the next president will focus on the minimum wage, healthcare, immigration and trade, among other important policies.

The Accident-prone Oil Industry Is a Chronic Threat to the Gulf Coast's Environmental Health

Sue Sturgis Facing South
When we talk about the problem of oil industry accidents, we tend to focus on dramatic events like the deadly 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion off the coast of Louisiana, or the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker crash in Alaska's Prince William Sound. But the industry is far more accident-prone than such relatively rare high-profile disasters suggest.

Seizing Freedom: David Roediger with Peter St. Clair

David Roediger with Peter St. Clair Brooklyn Rail
The North won the Civil War, but the South won the Reconstruction. The victorious Northern armies preserved the Union and the slaves were emancipated but the Confederates won the historical interpretation of those events by perpetrating the myths that became the accepted story over the next one hundred years.