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The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Is a Stain on Both Parties

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Epstein just enjoyed the perks of life in one of the very top tiers of a society where laws are for little people.

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“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant

Eyal Press The New Yorker
Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.

Tidbits- July 24-Readers Comments: Working-Class Social, Economic Attitudes; Academic Scholarship on Israel, Palestine; Mpls Selects Democratic Socialist; Dem Youth Wing Passes Amendment Opposing Ongoing Genocide in Gaza; Deportations Destroys Jobs

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Readers Comments: Working-Class Social, Economic Attitudes; Genocide; Academic Scholarship on Israel, Palestine; Minneapolis Selects Democratic Socialist; Dem Youth Wing Passes Amendment Opposing Ongoing Genocide in Gaza; Deportations Destroys Jobs

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

J.W. Mason Dissent Magazine
Mamdani’s agenda will face serious obstacles. A massive wave of new voters doesn’t just carry you into office. It shifts the landscape, it creates political capital that can be turned toward other ends; changes political calculations for others...

Tidbits- July 10-Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic Disaster Plan Two Days Before Flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants – More Disasters To Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches

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Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic disaster plan two days before flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants - More Disasters to Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches next week; more

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
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