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Flaming the Fans

Robert Lipsyte TomDispatch
How the Age of Trump Has Changed Fandom

How Oregon is Turning the Page on America's Disastrous Drug War

Phillip Smith Independent Media Institute
While the expansion of treatment, and related social services is undeniably a good thing, drug decriminalization is ultimately about getting people out of the criminal justice system and ensuring that they are not sucked into it in the first place.

Capitalism vs. Liberty

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
It’s time for Americans to call socialism by its name. Like Sisyphus, the best we can expect is that the rock may stay where we’ve put it for a long while, sometimes for entire generations of decency, as the struggle continues.
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