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    The Super Bowl Exposed the Brutality of America’s Class Divide

    by Alex Skopic Sports

    For the Super Bowl, New Orleans forced unhoused people into a grim warehouse—and paid a private contractor $17.5 million for it—while billionaires’ superyachts floated on the Mississippi. How much longer will we tolerate this obscene inequality? Read the article ›

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    How Ta-Nehisi Coates Helped Me See Palestine

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    On “The Message,” a trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the moral duty to break the silence. Read the article ›

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    As Trump’s Outlaw Presidency Worsens, Why Have Democrats Given Up on Impeachment?

    by Ralph Nader Politics

    Ralph Nader makes the case for a national impeachment movement—and explains why Democratic leaders have so little interest in leading one. Read the article ›

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Proposed Alternatives to Gender Reveals

A few exciting and much-safer nonbinary celebrations to take the place of the disaster that is the gender reveal party.

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Everyone loves a party or an explosion. But gender reveals have their problems. For one thing, it’s impossible to know what an unborn child’s gender is. Also, some gender reveals cause catastrophic wildfires. Allow Current Affairs to propose some far more reasonable but equally fun alternatives!

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an investigation into the Department of (In)justice, a deep-dive into Milton Friedman’s neoliberal hellscape, and a journey with America’s modern-day train-hoppers. We revisit forgotten cinema, celebrate Ferdinand the bull’s birthday, and review an unlikely communist-flavored video game. Join us for a road trip down Route 66, then read a firsthand report from the occupied West Bank exposing the horrors of escalating settler violence. Finally, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Adam McKay exposes the climate lie threatening civilization—and Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, joins us for an exclusive interview.

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