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Trump Is Losing His War on Renewables

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
This is the second war Trump is losing. Last year solar and wind power accounted for 99 percent of the growth in world electricity supply, while generation using fossil fuels declined.

The New Jim Crow

Joyce Vance Civil Discourse
As you look at Alabama and other Southern states reintroducing racist gerrymanders, don’t think it can’t happen anywhere else. Trump isn’t building a ballroom for the next guy. It’s up to us to hold the line.

How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement

Mark Engler and Matthew Miles Goodrich Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.

Starmer Crashes While Socialist Sánchez Soars

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?

The Great Antifa Hoax

Eric Alterman The New Republic
Yes, it exists. It’s not really a threat to anyone except neo-Nazis—but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery of federal law enforcement loose on anyone with “dangerous” ideas.

Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold?

Ryan Cooper The American Prospect
Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents? Is Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) going to switch parties? That’s the scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C.

Zionism Didn’t Go Wrong, It Was Always Built This Way

Gideon Levy Haaretz
Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate.
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