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Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Triumphant Year One

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
From deftly handling hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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Why Architecture and Urban Space Are Always Political

George Themistokleous LSE Review of Books
The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a wide ranging discussion about social justice-oriented responses to the politics of our constructed, lived environment.

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

Marc Kagan Jacobin
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.
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