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The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood

Mat Coward Morning Star
An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a new generation in the 1950s TV show.

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The Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World. Here’s How

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian
What we’ve done to rescue the climate is far from good enough, but we are “bending the curve.” Landmarks like the Paris treaty and the Vanuatu victory matter, as do renewable energy milestones, and there’s plenty left to fight for.

Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.

Rachel Cohen Booth The New York Times
If Mamdani learns from the mistakes that have derailed past efforts, he could pull off something that could change the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers with young children. More than that, he could set a powerful national example.

Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later

National Security Archive National Security Archive
Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repression, [whose] teams … launch[ed] assassination missions and other criminal operations in the United States, Mexico and Europe.”

In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh

A.J. Goldmann Columbia Journalism Review
The acclaimed filmmaker and investigative journalist on her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?
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