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Labor Can’t Remain Shackled to the Democrats

Neal Meyer Convergence
In much of the US, Democrats’ reputation is utterly toxic to working-class voters. Running independent candidates may be the way forward for labor and the Left in many regions — potentially planting the seeds of a new party.

Empires of Flow Control

Nicholas Mulder The New York Review of Books
The modern idea of the freedom of the seas is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.

Archiving Joy

Emma Janssen The American Prospect
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
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