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This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

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Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg
The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

T.J. Clark London Review of Books
If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?

Running in Circles on Racial Justice

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler LA Progressive
The reaction to racial justice is relentless and comes whenever strives are made to make the nation more inclusive.

Sunday Science: My Errant Uterus

Monica J. Casper Sapiens.org
In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.