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Lessons From Chicago’s Left, Two Years in Power

Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jeanette Taylor, Daniel Denvir Jacobin
With Zohran Mamdani on the cusp of victory in New York City, the Left should learn from the ups and downs of embattled Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.

Friday Nite Videos | September 26, 2025

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Leslie Jones on Memory-Holing Slavery. Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal. Pregnancy Is Insane. What Mark Zuckerberg Is Hiding About His AI Chatbots. Trump And Vance Cannot Be Happy With the New South Park.

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My Grandpa Was Two

Peter Neil Carroll
Stopping in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, during a trip along the Mississippi, historian and poet Peter Carroll contemplates the flow of time.

Trump Is Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites

Kevin Sack The New York Times
This is a betrayal of history’s fundamental purpose: to learn from the past. If we ever aspire to become one nation, the entirety of our past, including the enslavement of an estimated 10 million people, must be acknowledged as our shared history.

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.

How Sherman’s March Opened the Door for Self-Emancipation

Adria R Walker The Guardian
Historian Bennett Parten's new book, Somewhere Toward Freedom, focuses on the experience of those who seized a chance at emancipation. “Through the collective weight and power of their movement, [they] found a way to essentially be in the room.”

History Lesson

Laleh Khalili Jewish Currents
Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship.
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