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Curbing Gun Violence Takes More Than Just Gun Laws

Elizabeth Reed The Progressive
Our nation’s prioritization of personal rights over the common good is not only a major barrier to gun law reform—it is the very soil in which America’s epidemic of violence grows.

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism

Gabriel Hetland Convergence
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

Friday Nite Videos | October 31, 2025

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Trump's Shockingly Corrupt Donor Network. IL National Guard Members Say They Won't Obey Trump's Orders. Young Russians Ready To Pay a Price To Defy the Kremlin. Zohran Mamdani - Reimagining NYC | The Daily Show. No Kings Rally | Signs and Song.

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween

Meredith Shiner The New Republic
Parents are fighting back. Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

God’s Chief Justice

Doug Bock Clark ProPublica
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
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