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Today 9:14 am
Cops Lynched Tyre Nichols Because They Knew They Could
All police, regardless of race or background, are employed to uphold a system conceived by white people, for white people, that operates to oppress Black people.
Elie Mystal
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Today 5:30 am
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
If unions here are weaker and smaller than in Margaret Thatcher’s day, their strikes are also far more popular.
Gary Younge
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Today 5:00 am
Fresh Off Victory Against “Roe,” the Religious Right Is Pushing a Record Number of Anti-Trans Bills
The attacks on trans people echo the right’s anti-abortion playbook note for note. It’s up to us to recognize what’s really going on here.
Amy Littlefield and Heron Greenesmith
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Today 5:00 am
Coverage of Trans Kids Exploits the Anxieties of Middle-Class Parents
In a transphobic world, parents of trans children have every reason to worry. It’s craven for journalists to take advantage of that fear.
McKenzie Wark
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Today 5:00 am
What the Attacks on New Mexico Democrats Say About Being a Woman in Politics
Female politicians are three times more likely than their male colleagues to be targeted with threats and harassment.
Cecilia Nowell
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Today 5:00 am
The Long, Bitter History of Globalism
A conversation with Tara Zahra about the early-20th-century origins of globalism, how debates over a globalized world have morphed across a century, and her new book, Against the World.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Today 5:00 am
Tyre Nichols’s Police Murder and the Pathologizing of Blackness
How anti-Black brutality has become the binding force of American identity.
Anthony Conwright
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January 30, 2023
When Fighting Racism, Do Sports Matter?
On this week’s episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we discuss the NBA, race and sports, and the police murder of Tyre Nichols.
Dave Zirin
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January 30, 2023
The Killing of Tyre Nichols Is an Indictment of the Entire Political System
After BLM and the George Floyd protests, the bipartisan elite embraced bolstering police power.
Jeet Heer
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January 30, 2023
Nuclear Fusion Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Want It to Be
It’s not about creating future clean energy and never has been. It’s about “protecting” the world’s greatest capitalist superpower.
Joshua Frank