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September 23, 2022
David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy
Jim Crow wasn’t an exception—but a model for the future.
Jeet Heer
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September 22, 2022
Fascists, Neofascists, and Postfascists: Italy’s Unreal Election Debate
With most Italians exhausted by the status quo, the far right is likely to be the biggest winner in Sunday’s elections.
David Broder
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September 22, 2022
Holding Back the Tide of Water Privatization
Three public water activists say privatization is not the answer to our infrastructure woes.
Hadas Thier
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September 21, 2022
Remembering Ying Lee
Looking back at the life of a trailblazing activist and Berkeley’s first Asian American city council member.
David Bacon
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September 20, 2022
It Isn’t Populist to Defund Rural Schools
The Republican Party has won rural America by fanning the flames of the culture war. But by taking a match to public schools, it may have finally gone too far.
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
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September 16, 2022
Republicans May Not Run on Abortion, but They Can’t Hide From the Debate
J.D. Vance’s contortions and Lindsey Graham’s blundering press conference show that the abortion issue has become a quagmire for the right.
Jeet Heer
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September 15, 2022
Rail Workers, Nurses, Teachers Are Fighting From the Bottom Up
When will their supposed national leaders—in unions, and in the Democratic Party—get serious?
Jane McAlevey
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September 15, 2022
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September 14, 2022
Haiti Is On Fire Again, and Again the US Does Nothing to Help
Untroubled by the ballot, hugely unpopular, useless, negligent, and ruling without anything that could qualify as a functioning legislature, the country’s de facto prime minister, Ariel Henry, clings to power with Washington’s staunch support.
Amy Wilentz
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September 14, 2022
Biden vs. Newsom on Farmworkers’ Right To Vote
In a heated debate over farmworker voting rights, California’s governor refuses to sign a bill to make it easier for workers to win union recognition.
David Bacon