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Excerpt: How To Close a Camp

John Washington Texas Observer
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the rac­ist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.

The Mentor

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark The New Yorker
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.

Jewish Socialists Helped Build Multiracial Democracy in America

Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
In the early 1900s, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order fought for multiracial democracy and Yiddish culture, building solidarity across ethnic and racial lines — until it was destroyed by the Red Scare. Review of From Popular Front to Cold War
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