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White-Out at the White House

Jason Stanley Forum Magazine
Biden seeks counsel from a group of scholars who aren’t deeply versed in the racial threat to our democracy

Turning Off Congo’s Looting Machine

John Prendergast Project Syndicate
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been pillaged by foreign governments and corporations for more than 500 years, and this sordid pattern continues to this day. Given this history, is it any wonder that the country suffers from massive corruption, perpetual conflict, and state capture?

Friday Nite Videos | July 29, 2022

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Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History. Choice (Texas Style). “I Call Bullshit!” Jon Stewart on the PACT Act. Manchin, Schumer Reveal Washington's Best Kept Secret. Why US Gun Laws Get Looser After Mass Shootings.

It’s the Christian Right’s Court. They Want More.

Katherine Stewart The Guardian
Understood in the context of the movement that created the Supreme Court in its current incarnation, there is nothing surprising about their overturning Roe. In fact, it marks the beginning rather than the endpoint of their agenda.

Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine

Christopher Howard Sapiens
Anthropologists have helped uncork the fascinating history of winemaking—from drunken primates to Stone Age seed domestication to intoxicating religious rites.

When Did the Ruling Class Get Woke?

Ishan Desai-Geller The Nation
A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book Elite Capture, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing.

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Radical Justice

Dana Dunham Chicago Review of Books
This 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner in history is a tale of crime, racism, power, and the conflict between punitive and restorative justice in settler-colonial North America.
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