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This Cheese Is Your Cheese

Hannah Walhout Ambrook Research
There’s a literal wide world of cheeses out there. As U.S. dairies struggle, should we be making more of them? Sometimes, this can make all the difference in keeping a farm in business.

Democratic Socialist Post-Election Musings

Tom Gallagher Medium.com
Much of the post-election Democratic Party fretting has appropriately centered on the degree to which it has lost the presumption of being the party of the working class. One solution: "Maybe Democrats have to embrace a Sanders-style disruption."

Tulsi Gabbard, Bashar al-Assad and Me

Michael Isikoff SpyTalk
Trump’s DNI pick and I were both in Damascus in the winter of 2017 to meet with the dictator of Syria. We came away with very different takes

This Week in People’s History, Nov 27-Dec 3

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A painted caricature of Japan's 1959 Prime Minister, Kishi Nobusuke
What Can You Expect from a War Criminal? (1959), The Battle of Seattle’s Unexpected Outcome (1999), We’re Not Raw Material, We’re Human Beings! (1964), A Brave Doctor Helps Lead the Way (1969)

Trump’s Crown Doesn’t Fit

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times
Trump will fight to try to impose his vision of the new world. But there is a large gap between a stated intention and an accomplished fact. And it is within that space that politics happens.