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The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie

Alexander Clapp The New York Times
We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

How Black Marxists Have Understood Racial Oppression

An interview with Jeff Goodwin by Jonah Birch Jacobin
The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong

Eugene Ludwig Politico
Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy was during the Biden Administration but were they relying on flawed statistics? Unemployment was higher, wages lower, growth less robust than was claimed.

The DOGE Czar’s Plan To Loot Medicare

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
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