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Dolly Parton Used Her Voice To Tell Working-Class Stories

Jarek Paul Ervin Jacobin
For decades, Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. Parton gave a voice to those who are all too often forgotten. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.

How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People

David Dayen The American Prospect
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

Tidbits-Aug. 27: Reader Comments: Trade War – With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega Post; 9 to 5; Resource – Election Defense Scenarios; What Is Democratic Socialism?;

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Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...

Why 9 to 5 Still Resonates Today

Karen Nussbaum Jacobin
A documentary goes inside the making of the classic labor-feminist movie 9 to 5 — and shows how many of the problems it lampooned still plague working women today.