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Philipp Corfman • 10
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Though little remembered now, at the turn of the 20th century Cleveland’s socialists heroically fought Samuel Gompers for leadership of the American Federation of Labor — putting forward a revolutionary alternative to Gompers’s conservative unionism.
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Arwa Mahdawi • 14
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Host Jesse Watters says Trump’s offer to Americans if Republicans retain Congress is ‘an enticement’, not a bribe.
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Ned Rust • 11
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A new survey of 6,100 voters finds that persuadable voters respond to plain talk about rent, groceries, and corruption — and tune out when Democrats lecture them about who’s dividing them.
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Jules Boykoff • 17
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The World Cup and its aftermath made clear that Fifa needs independent oversight by governments and NGOs dedicated to preserving the people’s game.
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Hayat Elhore, Lisa Stenson, Gail Rego • 13
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Cleaning work is often called low-skilled, perhaps because it’s usually done by low-waged women. .
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Evelina Johansson Wilén • 1
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Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. .
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Editorial • 1
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Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend.
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Jameel Jaffer • 1
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Over the past quarter-century, the US supreme court has repeatedly failed to protect first amendment rights. We are suffering the consequences.
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Alex McCarron • 1
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Hollywood’s unions fight for tax credits and jobs but not for the movies themselves. .
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Kenneth Roth • 1
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The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence.
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Alexander Görlach • 1
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Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party styles itself as populist and anti-elite. .
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Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley • 1
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The Trump administration wants a feel-good version of American history. That is not a feature of a democratic system.
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Branko Marcetic • 1
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Nobody seems to care anymore about the fears and threats that originally motivated the war on terror. .
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Simon Jenkins • 1
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The US president is ever more wayward – and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can’t wait.
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Daniel Bessner • 1
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Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project. .
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Sidney Blumenthal • 1
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The president’s chaotic schemes of aggrandizement, from Venezuela to Iran, have no larger rationale.
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Moustafa Bayoumi • 1
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Anti-Muslim sentiment is used as a political weapon. Meanwhile, Muslim American leaders are making a difference for all.
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Charlotte Feakins • 6
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One Nation and the AfD may not look the same, but they are singing from the same song sheet - and both have had recent electoral success.
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Julianne Schultz • 6
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Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools.
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Amy Annette • 17
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People making a living from being funny should be exempt from the beauty rules the rest of society plays by.
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Charlotte Higgins • 19
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The tapestry is drawing crowds to the British Museum – and each person who sees it will draw a different meaning from this epic, vivid artwork.
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Steve Bloomfield • 21
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This week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world .
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Rosa Galvez • 1
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Climate integrity means being honest about the gap between emissions reduced on paper and emissions reduced in the atmosphere.
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Ahdaf Soueif • 1
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For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed and displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all.
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Marina Hyde • 1
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If the monarch thought his sniffy letter would put Harry and Meghan at a disadvantage, he doesn’t understand how the celebrity world works.
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Gaby Hinsliff • 1
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AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late.
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Ben Burgis • 2
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Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. .
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Nicholas Liu • 2
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At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. .
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John Livesey • 2
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Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. .
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David Broder • 2
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. .
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Nikos Mohammadi • 2
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For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to The Free Press, defending Israel takes priority over the facts.
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Juliet Jacques • 2
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After the scandals of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, FIFA hoped North America would offer a less political World Cup. .
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Eileen Jones • 2
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Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s national cinema was gutted, censored, and left for dead. .
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K-pop has reoriented the global music landscape — often at the expense of its stars.
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Alex Niven • 2
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Don’t let the baby boomers moderate the Beatles’ politics. .
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Matt Huber • 2
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The United States hasn’t just ignored the threat of climate change at home; it has used its military and financial might to accelerate environmental destruction around the world. .
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Hank Kennedy • 2
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Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
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Mohamad Bazzi • 2
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The president’s latest warning barely registered, written off as typical behavior. But the threats have real-world consequences.
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Margaret Sullivan • 4
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The more defense secretary Pete Hegseth tries to flex his manly strength, the wimpier he looks.
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Robert Reich • 4
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The president apparently plans to focus on the person he most admires – himself – even if Republicans would rather he didn’t.
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Moira Donegan • 5
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Clancy’s case became a referendum on mothers, healthcare and the status of women.
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Dave Schilling • 6
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My parents’ generation may have been on to something when they railed against gambling. If only George Santos had listened.
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Arwa Mahdawi • 7
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Todd Blanche’s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imagination.
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Austin Sarat • 8
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Christa Pike’s planned execution is emblematic of America’s broken death penalty system.
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Moira Donegan • 9
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The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments.
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Steven Greenhouse • 9
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The trillions in tax cuts going to the rich and corporations could have instead been used to address the affordability crisis.
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Arwa Mahdawi • 9
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Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity.
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Robert Reich • 10
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The US president’s need to assert dominance is igniting patriotism abroad and a backlash at home.
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Margaret Sullivan • 10
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The president’s call for the FCC to scrutinize Kristen Welker’s innocuous remarks is a sign of desperation.
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Moira Donegan • 10
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The far-right provocateur helped galvanize a movement that no longer needs him. Now his imitators are claiming victory.
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Rebecca Solnit • 12
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Public lands belong to all of us. No one should plunder those lands for profit.
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Editorial • 3
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The US president seized a nation’s natural wealth in a modern-day version of gunboat diplomacy to feed his ego – not to lower Americans’ fuel bills.
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Editorial • 12
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The president’s deportation machine is creating a class of people inside the US who have fewer protections against the power of the state.
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Editorial • 12
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New child safety measures are welcome, but the wider risks posed by these platforms remain unaddressed .
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Editorial • 15
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The British Museum’s landmark cultural exchange is a symbol of post-Brexit rapprochement between Britain and France.
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