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August 25, 2018

Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt

Peter Beinart The Atlantic

What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.

August 25, 2018

False Concepts of Liberty

Win McCormack The New Republic

How to argue with a Koch brother

August 25, 2018

Southern Cities Are Passing Paid Sick Leave

Bryce Covert In These Times

But Republicans Won’t Let Them Have It

August 25, 2018

Imagining a World With No Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber, Chris Brooks Roar Magazine

In this interview about his latest book, David Graeber discusses the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes.”

August 25, 2018

The Commune Holds the Solution to the Crisis

Angel Prado and Ricardo Vaz Venezuelanalysis.com

An interview with Angel Prado (Part I).A grassroots Chavista leader reflects on the future of the communal project and the contradictions in the Bolivarian Process, in this interview with VA’s Ricardo Vaz.

August 24, 2018

Frequently Asked Questions: #7

Camille T. Dungy Split this Rock

The award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy captures a specific, amazing moment when a stranger suddenly realizes the price of racism.

August 24, 2018

Incarcerated Workers Strike Against Dehumanizing Prison Conditions

Fizz Perkal Inequality

A nationwide strike takes charge at everything from slavery to sentencing. Organizers say it could be the largest U.S. prison resistance action to date.

August 24, 2018

Medicare for All and Free College Tuition Are Wildly Popular Policies

Meagan Day Jacobin

The Left is winning the battle of ideas right now. Overwhelming majorities of people have come around to some of our major policy proposals in incredibly short amounts of time. Let’s keep pushing.

August 24, 2018

Trump Wants to Ban Flipping Because He Is Almost Literally a Mob Boss

Jonathan Chait New York Magazine

To gangsters, a rat is considered the worst kind of person because they pose the greatest danger to their ability to escape prosecution.

David Pecker's Past Practice Puts POTUS in a Pickle

August 24, 2018

Rachel Maddow looks back at how David Pecker programmed the National Enquirer to promote Donald Trump and trash Hillary Clinton through the 2016 campaign, though he is now reportedly cooperating with investigators in the Cohen case and maybe more.