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History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

Michael Luo The New Yorker
The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza

Norman Solomon CounterPunch
More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to arm the Israeli military in violation of “international and federal law that prohibits complicity in genocide.”

Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage

Craig Medlen Monthly Review
It is the purpose of this article to relate how this creeping stagnation has added its own force in contributing to the monopoly power associated with consolidation and to current wealth disparities.

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me

Chris Townsend Jacobin
As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.

Unions Get Bigger in Texas

Emily Markwiese The Progressive
Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

Katya Schwenk Jacobin
After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97 percent of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.

How Trump Nominees Could Make Project 2025 a Reality

Amanda Becker The 19th
While many of the policies in Project 2025 have been floating around Republican circles for years, the document is a roadmap that shows how its authors believe they can finally deliver on key pieces of their conservative Christian agenda.