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Drinking Cultures Around the World

Gavin Lapidus eshores travel guides
Different cultures have important rules, traditions and customs that reveal interesting things about them.

Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It

Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston The New York Times
For many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.

Jan. 6 Committee: Four Grave Crimes of Donald Trump

Jamie Raskin Portside
Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. More than sufficient evidence exists of Donald Trump assisting or aiding and comforting a violent attack on the United States.

Why Biden Must Confront Corporate Employers More Directly

Jon Hiatt onlabor
It is not too late for Biden to use the full powers of his presidency to confront employers who force workers to choose between protecting their health or retaining their jobs — and to challenge them in other matters as well.

Charlene Mitchell, Leader of the Campaign To Free Angela Davis

Mitchell family Portside
Charlene (Alexander) Mitchell, a key leader of the movement in the early 1970s to free imprisoned activist Angela Davis, helped found NAARPR, and the CCDS, ran for President in 1968 on the U.S. Communist Party ticket.

All Pain and No Gain From Higher Interest Rates

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate
In the name of taming inflation, central banks have deliberately set themselves on a path to cause a recession – or to worsen it if it comes anyway. Worse, today's monetary-policy tightening will leave long-lasting scars, there are better responses.