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Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This

Adam Serwer The Atlantic
The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

The American Economy Is Rigged

Joseph E. Stiglitz Scientific American
We are already paying a high price for inequality, but it is just a down payment on what we will have to pay if we do not do something—and quickly. It is not just our economy that is at stake; we are risking our democracy.

Voting While Black

Fredreka Schouten CNN
How activists are racing to create a midterm Black wave.

In and Against the State

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Socialist Project
Here, ‘reform versus revolution’ is not a useful way to frame the dilemmas that socialists must actually confront. Political hopes are inseparable from notions of what is possible.

Trump Is Running Scared of Socialism

Miles Kampf-Lassin Convergence
Donald Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it: we’re winning.

Friday Nite Videos | October 26, 2018

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Conservative Pundit Barbies | I Love You, America on Hulu. Canned Heat | Election Blues. Florida's Senate Race Has Some Mic Drops. The Advocates | Documentary. Donald Trump's New Ad for Ted Cruz.
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