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The Third Sovereign

Robert Sullivan The New York Review of Books
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.

Coalition Socialism

Chris Maisano Dissent Magazine
The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Pervasive Impunity

Cora Currier The New York Review of Books
Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

The True Threat of OpenAI

Andrew Deck The Nation
Karen Hao’s recent book on the company argues that its ambitions are not merely about scale or the market but the creation of a global force that rivals a colonial power of old.

Cautionary Tales From the New Left

Steve Early Jacobin
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less

Study of Nazi Courts Full of Grim Lessons for Today

Tom Sandborn Rabble (Canada)
While the most horrific acts of injustice in German courtrooms may have occurred during the reign of Hitler, in many ways the courts had been corrupted by right-wing extremism years before, and helped facilitate his rise to power.

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

intan O’Toole The New Yorker
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

Andrew Tonkovich Los Angeles Review of Books
Andrew Tonkovich reviews Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman’s “The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism.”
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