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July 25, 2020

How to Avoid Reproduction

Molly Martin The Stansbury Forum

Republicans’ answer to the prospect of socialized medicine is, for a growing number of Americans, no healthcare at all. And the attacks on women’s reproductive care continue.

July 25, 2020

What About the Back Rent?   

Sarah Betancourt CommonWealth Beacon

State eviction moratorium may only delay the reckoning for tenants  .

July 25, 2020

St. Louis’s Shameful Workhouse Jail Must Be Shut Down

Mihir Sharma and Clark Randall Jacobin

In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against cash bail and the abuse of prisoners.

July 24, 2020

Young Americans for Freedom

Lee Rossi

Poet Lee Rossi recalls his introduction to right-wing politics, Goldwater’s call for a war against America, much of it still echoing today.

July 24, 2020

Whole Foods Punished Workers for Black Lives Matter Masks, Suit Says

Christine Hauser The New York Times

Eight protesters wearing Black Lives Matter Masks

Over a dozen workers at Whole Foods stores in four states claim in a class-action lawsuit that the company retaliated against them for wearing the movement’s apparel.

July 24, 2020

What the Nazis Learned From America’s Indian Removal

Jack Schwartz Daily Beast

“The Volga must be our Mississippi,” Hitler declared in his pursuit of Lebensraum and liquidation.

July 24, 2020

Single Mothers and Their Children Are Taking Over Abandoned Public Buildings

Mindy Isser In These Times

The purpose of the encampments is to house people, but to also create a space where “they are treated with dignity, like they have the right to exist.”

July 24, 2020

Portside

How to Avoid Reproduction

What About the Back Rent?

St. Louis’s Shameful Workhouse Jail Must Be Shut Down

Young Americans for Freedom

Whole Foods Punished Workers for Black Lives Matter Masks, Suit Says

What the Nazis Learned From America’s Indian Removal

Single Mothers and Their Children Are Taking Over Abandoned Public Buildings

What Should We Do With Racist Sports Team Owners? Call Them Out Relentlessly

From Trash To Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives

To Make a Deepfake: Richard Nixon and Our Information Ecosystem