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• Pizzigati: The House Has Gone Democratic. Can the House Now Go Bold?

  Vague rhetoric about ‘access to health care’ and ‘good jobs’ won’t challenge the plutocracy that keeps our lives brutal. These proposals could
• Sheets: Inside the #MeToo revolt at Google

  Report on the walkout at Google — why it happened, how it was organized, what it achieved and what it tells us about organizing the tech sector
• Alternatives: Building walls

  Fear and securitization in the European Union
• Warfield: Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap

  Circulating local dollars can’t create wealth when there’s not enough to begin with
• Grim: Ocasio-Cortez Joins Environmental Activists in Protest at Pelosi’s Office

  Protesters with the environmental group Sunrise marched on Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s office on Tuesday. The group, made up of young people pushing for urgent action on climate change, planned to send a clear message to party leadership just one week after Democrats regained control of the House
• Boeve: Calls for Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Economy

  “We are really daunted by the reality of the climate impacts that are facing us.”
• Johnson: ‘Corporate bribery’ lands Amazon HQ2 in Queens

  The idea that Amazon "will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need more investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here."
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  Albert: Michael Albert on his Screenplay for Next American Revolution

  Michael Albert talking about The Next American Revolution from Stuart...
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  Albert: NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  Screenplay for Next American Revolution
• Shapiro: Homelessness in New York Public Schools

  One out of every 10 students lived in temporary housing during the last school year
• Khan: The Weaponization of Social Media

  The technologies and social media platforms (such as Twitter and Facebook) that once promised to enhance democracy are now increasingly being used to undermine it
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  Fanning: The Stories War Tells Me

  A Veteran and Parent Can’t Stop Thinking About the War He Fought
• Rossanda: ‘The left has lost its electorate’

  On Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, on Propaganda Live, a program on the Italian network La7, Diego Bianchi broadcast his interview with Rossana Rossanda, a co-founder of il manifesto
• Marcetic: The Contradictions of the #Resistance

  Jeff Sessions’ tenure as attorney general was vastly more detrimental to democracy and the rule of law than shuttering Mueller’s investigation could ever be. No one should be nostalgic for his tenure
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  Monbiot: In a World of Their Own

  By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance
• Spencer: Surveillance capitalism the pre-eminent business model of Silicon Valley

  Beyond hawking hardware and software, the monetization of identity defines the ultimate tech business model
• Archuleta Jr.: Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor

  Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites
• Smith: Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement

  Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain
• Levy: Maine to Test the ‘Ranked-Choice’ Voting System

  Ranked choice voting gives you the power to rank candidates from your favorite to your least favorite
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  Albert: A Different Take?

  There has been a massive flood of election assessments. What...
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  Kelly: Condemning Saudi Cruelty in Yemen

  Interview on a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare
• Contributors: What the Midterm Results Mean for Progressives

  Nina Turner, Maria Svart, Rick Perlstein, Barbara Ransby, Bill Fletcher Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Larry Cohen and Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor give their takeaways from Tuesday night
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  Hallinan: Unwrapping Armageddon

  The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control