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North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Billy Corriher Slate
North Carolina has been here before. From 2013 through 2018, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature. They engaged in a series of power grabs. North Carolina’s citizens can rally to save the state’s democracy once again.

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Claudio Tognonato il manifesto
For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the distracted somnambulism of our societies, because we have only one life and only one planet.

The Other Border Crisis: Mining

Miriam Davidson The Progressive
El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.

How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley

Jonathan Guyer Vox
All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital. In two years, MBS poured at least $11 billion into US startups, making it the industry’s largest single investor.

The Immigrants Are the Same — America Is Different

Razvan Sibii Greenfield Recorder
The immigrants haven’t really changed since the Ellis Island days — but America has. In 1923, immigrants did not need a visa, or any other sort of prior permission, to enter the United States.
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