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Ilhan Omar Embarks on New Path No Longer Defined by ‘Firsts’

Farnoush Amiri AP
While many voiced concerns that her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee would effectively silence her on foreign policy, Omar said Republicans badly miscalculated, given that she was assigned to the House Budget Committee as a replacement.

An American Dilemma: Michael Kazin and the Recycling of Cold War Liberalism

Jonathan Feldman CounterPunch
A coherent U.S. policy would be based on a more cooperative posture towards the Russians not militarist expansionism which empowers militarists in both Russia and the U.S. While Putin’s militarism is quite dangerous, it is no more crazy than keeping a war going that kills thousands, risks nuclear accidents, and wastes precious resources.

PACT Act Problems

Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early The Progressive
The VA is unprepared for a flood of claims from veterans disabled by toxic exposure.

Rolling Back “Right-To-Work” in States

Barry Eidlin Jacobin
Michigan’s repeal of its “right-to-work” law could be a huge boon to labor — not because a flood of new members will instantly join unions, but because the entire country is hearing the message that the state will not tolerate flagrant union busting.

No Regrets

W.D. Ehrhart
The poet W.D. Ehrhart, veteran of both the Marines and Vietnam Veterans Against the War asks seriously, how can people like Henry Kissinger claim a lifetime of “no regrets”?

Organizing Pays Off: Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Win

Barbara Ransby The Nation
Movement organizers claimed a hard-won collective victory with Brandon Johnson's election. Now the Windy City’s first movement mayor faces a formidable array of challenges, testing him and the coalition that brought him into office.

LBJ vs. MLK

Jonathan Eig and Jeanne Theoharis The New York Times
New documents reveal that Johnson was more of an antagonist to King and a conspirator with Hoover than he has been portrayed. He knew exactly what J. Edgar Hoover was doing.