The War on Workers

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Mike Konczal usefully summarizes Gordon Lafer's new report on the Tea Party's class warfare. Although the media and most blogs have focused on Tea Party legislators' work to undermine voting rights and reproductive rights, typically their work undermining employee rights has gone underreported. An excerpt: Crucially,...
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“Pieces of meat passed high overhead…”

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Farewell to George Thomas Thornton, an American visionary who understood that few dreams are worth pursuing that don't involve dynamite and the rotting carcasses of charismatic megafauna. While Thornton's decision to obliterate a sperm whale in November 1970 would, decades later, bring him lasting internet fame,...

The Cry of Jazz

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Edward Bland’s 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz is one of the most remarkable films I’ve ever seen. An early statement of the black nationalism that would become famous in.

Deporting Immigration Activsts

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Regardless of what one thinks of the strategy of civil disobedience from immigration activists who risk deportation, actually deporting one of them is incredibly awful. Perez’s lawyer, David Bennion, explains that deportation doesn’t make sense. She came to the country at the age of four, graduated...
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