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Monopoly League Baseball

Amos Barshad The Lever
Why is a private equity firm reaping the benefits of hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies while taking over Minor League Baseball?

Pasquale Tridico on Social Justice and Political Change

Stefano Galieni Transform!Europe
We need to realise a project that puts peace and freedom at the heart of EU policy. We must act to ensure prosperity for all, to protect welfare, and to defend labour, which ever since Maastricht has never been sufficiently represented.

Friday Nite Videos | September 13, 2024

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School Lunch | John Oliver. Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy. How to Debate | Sarah Cooper. Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty. The GOP’s Three-Part Plan to Subvert Elections.

The Paradox of Progress for Black Americans

Algernon Austin and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad Other Words
This is the best economy for Black Americans in generations, but that’s not enough to close the racial wealth divide on its own.

The Naked ‘Survivor’ Guy Theory of U.S. Politics

Michael Hirschorn New York Times
If reality television began as a crude simulacrum of real life, today the opposite can feel true — that actual life is approximating reality television, and we’ve all been conscripted as cast members. The contagion has leaked from the lab.

Project 2025 and Its Plans for the Nation’s Public Lands

Stephanie Woodard Barn Raiser
If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.
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