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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

    by Etienne C. Toussaint Israel/Palestine

    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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Articles in Culture & Politics (5)

You Wanted a More Brutal World

Milo Yiannopoulos gleefully supported a vicious, brutal deportation machine. Having helped unleash this nightmarish system, will he take responsibility for helping us dismantle it?

by Nathan J. Robinson

The Voice of an Ordinary Iranian

Raha Nik-Andish, an Iranian writer living in Tehran, has risked his life to give the world an account of survival under the U.S. and Israel’s bombs. We owe it to him to listen.

by Alex Skopic

How to Defend Black History

Since the era of Reconstruction, Black historians have always fought to defend the truth against white supremacist mythology. In the second Trump administration, we must again.

by Robert Greene II