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Mavericks Without a Cause

Charlie Goldberg Dissent Magazine
The memoirs of John Fetterman and Joe Manchin offer revealing insights into two figures granted outsized importance by our broken political system.

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6 Popular Foods That Came From the Military

Tony Dunnell historyfacts.com
Some foods created specifically for soldiers — or adopted and popularized by the military — have found their way from the ration pack to supermarket shelves across America.

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Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’

Ashley Dawson Los Angeles Review of Books
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.

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Howard Zinn Seen Anew

Paul Buhle Portside
Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.

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Pushing Protein

Niloufar Haidari Vittles
Previously companies created products and sold them via celebrities and marketing campaigns. The protein craze seems to have reversed this flow, with businesses desperately pumping out products to meet the demand created by social media influencers
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