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What Abolitionists Do

Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, David Stein Jacobin
Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.

The First White President

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

Hillary Clinton's New Book Attacks Bernie. But Why?

Les Leopold Common Dreams
Based on her new book, writes Leopold, it is clear Hillary Clinton "is not interested in playing patty-cake for the sake of party unity in the Age of Trump. Screw that. She has accounts to settle."

Yes, I'm Sure I Want Single Payer

Libby Watson Splinter News
The author is responding to the Atlantic article, “Are You Sure You Want Single Payer?,” She writes: "The article is a particularly irksome entry in a genre of story that dates back to the beginning of the Sanders campaign. Each one says, effectively: Single payer would be hard to do, are you sure you really want it? So let’s consider: What if, actually, single payer is good?"

On 9/11: How We Slighted the Real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism

Juan Cole Informed Comment
It turns out . . . the real threat to the Homeland did not come from fringe radicals in the Middle East. Americans are more likely to be struck by lighting or fall down in their bathtubs and fatally hit their heads than they are ever to be negatively affected by Middle Eastern terrorism. Where did the real threat come from? From toxic carbon dioxide and methane emissions.