How Bad Slavery Was

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

Liset Cruz Type Investigations
These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

Eric Blanc, Emily Lemmerman, and Wen Zhuang The Nation
Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

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Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat. 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina. ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen. Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Illegal.

The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

Helena Worthen Dollars & Sense
Although labor education educates the individual, it also organizes the individual. It’s a kind of learning that progresses in sudden leaps and bounds, as people get the idea of the power of concerted collective activity and the whole group changes.

Tidbits- Aug.28 -Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism – Learning From Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss;

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Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

Rick Massimo Forget I Said Anything
The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act

Linda Greenhouse The New York Times
White people are depicted as victims of discrimination;.white South Africans are invited as refugees; the president demands a museum designed to tell the African American story must tell a happy tale. The voting rights law may not see a 61st birthday