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  Gordon: How to Make Yourself an Exception to the Rule of Law

  John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
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  Cole: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

  We were told that capitalism is efficient and agile. But new wind and solar are now cheaper even than coal, and yet the US political elite is trying to keep coal going and is invested in natural gas big time
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  Cook: Three lessons for the left from the Mueller inquiry

  Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism
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  Baker: The Importance of Kicking Up

  The rich wrote the rules in ways that ensure that they get a disproportionate share of income. We have to attack these rules
• Gallagher: The Primary Route – Pathway for Democratic Socialists

  Would active participation in the presidential primary race advance the development of a serious American electoral left?
• Knapp: Suppressing Discussion Doesn’t Solve the Problem. It is the Problem

  The only appropriate response to “bad” speech — that is, speech one disagrees with — is “better” speech.
• Molinar-Arvizo: Worse Than the Wall

  The agencies that separate families, abuse children, and deport innocent people should be just as toxic as Trump’s wall
• Aaronson: Terrorism’s Double Standard

  Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists
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  Solomon: Bernie Is Not a Wind Sock

  The Sanders campaign is a nationwide struggle for the kind of power that Dr. King extolled as “love implementing the demands of justice.” In his words, “Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose.”
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  deBuys: How to Make a Difficult Situation Awful

  Or Why Donald Trump’s Great Wall Is Viagra for Him, But a Border Disaster
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  Fuentes: Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures

  The refusal of Maduro’s opponents to acknowledge Chavismo’s existence goes a long way to explaining why, despite Venezuela’s profound crisis, Maduro remains in the presidential palace
• Robinson: The Obama Boys

  Movements need to be about the people, not a person
• Steinkopf-Frank: “We Demand Food for Thought”

  UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect
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  Fisk: Don’t believe the hype, Isis has not yet been defeated

  The Syrian war is not yet over – although that’s what the world (including, it seems, the Syrian government) believes
• DeManuelle-Hall: Minnesota Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job over Speed-Up

  After yet another speed-up in a workplace notorious for its...
• Rosen: Trafficking or Commercial Sex? What Recent Exposés Reveal

  It’s time to distinguish the two forms of commercial sex and decriminalize sex work
• Risen: The Mueller Report

  While Trump predictably declared himself exonerated, the most important fact was that Mueller was able to complete his investigation
• Sjursen: America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways

  Only a country that truly, deeply believes in its own special mission could repeat the hideous policies of the 1980s and hardly notice
• Tonak: The Turkish economy: worse than a recession

  Turkey’s economy is back in the news, and not in a good way
• Grim: Means TV, A Post-Capitalist Streaming Service

  Launched Thursday morning, Means TV plans to bring a leftist lens to news and entertainment in the burgeoning subscription video-on-demand industry
• Brooks: ‘It’s Different Here’ Is No Excuse

  Organizing is the antidote to futility. It’s how we come to understand our power
• Helm: One Million Join March Against Brexit

  Organisers hail UK’s ‘biggest-ever demo’