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Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case

Jose Pagliery Daily Beast
In her decision Monday, Cannon managed to cite the lone independent “statement” in a recent Supreme Court opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote that a former president like Trump does retain some executive privilege.

‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New York Review of Books
For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

Peace Talks Essential As War Rages On in Ukraine

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies CODEPINK
For those who say negotiations are impossible, we have only to look at the talks that took place during the first month after the Russian invasion, when Russia and Ukraine tentatively agreed to a fifteen-point peace plan in talks mediated by Turkey.

Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch

Robert Ovetz Dollars & Sense
What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

Gorbachev Couldn’t Reform the Soviet System

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, who died last week, was a tragic figure. He tried to build a humane socialism on the rotten foundations of authoritarianism. Today, without the albatross of Stalinism, we can fight for an entirely different kind of socialism.