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Ships Going Out

James Oakes The New York Review of Books
In American Slavers, Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

Roger Bybee MR Online
Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022).

Rolling Medicaid Purge

Jake Johnson Common Dreams
Largest Concentration of Health Insurance Loss in US History

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Christian Nationalists Have Provoked a Pluralist Resistance

Ruth Braunstein Religion News Service
As Christian nationalists take advantage of a moment of political precarity to call for a turn toward authoritarian theocracy, the press should be paying attention to those rising up to preserve democracy in America.

Chile’s Coup at 50: Countdown Toward a Coup

Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive
The documented U.S. role in the months, days and hours before the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger commiserated over the fact that they wouldn’t receive laudatory credit in the media for Allende’s demise.
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