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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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Surviving the Food Dystopia

There’s plastic in the sausage, and the clams have hepatitis. A greedy power circle runs our food system, and their push for deregulation is calamitous.

by Andre Gee