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Hard Times Come and Go
Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three
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Baton Rouge killing: Black Lives Matter protest photo hailed as ‘legendary’
One image from the Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge has been widely shared on social media. What do we know about the story behind it?
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Iceland’s Historic Candidate
How a scholar of the nation’s Presidency swiftly became its Presidential front-runner. By Adam Gopnik.
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They could have picked...
Last January, the unpronounceable Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, surveying his party’s throng of presidential aspirants, tweeted: ‘It’s clear we’ve got the most well-qualified and diverse field of candidates from any party in history.’ Why, the world wonders, did they end up with Donald Trump as their nominee? By Eliot Weinberger.
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After Brexit: the myth of post-truth politics
Remain has become a religion, whose Truth we must not deny. By Brendan O’Neill. (July 13, 2016)
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Giving the Thumbs Down on the Democratic Platform
The Democratic Platform Committee concluded its business after two days with claims of having established unity. But the unity myth is clearly exposed by the role of Ambassador Wendy Sherman in aggressively maintaining the party line votes of the Clinton delegation and the near revolts by the Sanders contingent in the wake of two questionable amendments this weekend. By Charlie Grapski. (July 12, 2016)
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How Donald Trump Picked His Running Mate
A behind-the-scenes look at how the nominee thinks. By Robert Draper.
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Uprising in the Rust Belt
They used to be Democrats. Now they really could hand Donald Trump the White House. By Keith O’Brien. (June 24, 2016)
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Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party’s Jill Stein Over “Neoliberal Disaster” Hillary Clinton
Cornel West is heading to Philadelphia next, where he will serve on the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee, but he has announced he won’t be backing the party’s presumptive nominee. West talks about why he is backing the Green Party’s Jill Stein over Hillary Clinton.
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Thomas Frank and Robert Scheer on the Democratic Party Establishment
In their discussion, Scheer and Frank discuss how the Democratic Party has crumbled and what the future of the establishment looks like. (July 26, 2016)
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Bad Moon Rising
Here we are in the desert of moderate liberalism. The storm has hit, and nobody was prepared. By Laurie Penny. (July 26, 2016)
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Who Should Bernie Voters Support Now? Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order
The day after Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the Democratic National Convention and urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race, we host a debate between Clinton supporter Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, and Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who backs Sanders.
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If Hillary Clinton loses in November, it won’t be Bernie Sanders’ fault
When progressive delegates booed any mention of Hillary Clinton, some accused them of helping Trump. But they aren’t to blame for a divided party. By Steven W Thrasher.
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The DNC Is One Big Corporate Bribe
Drink up—it's on us! Then go protest the TPP to your heart’s content. By David Dayen.
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Hillary Clinton needs to wake up. Trump is stealing the voters she takes for granted
For the first time in living memory, the Republicans are outflanking the Democrats on the left. If they don’t rise to the challenge, they’ll be trounced. By Thomas Frank.
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The new political divide
As political theatre, America’s party conventions have no parallel. Activists from right and left converge to choose their nominees and celebrate conservatism (Republicans) and progressivism (Democrats). But this year was different, and not just because Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party. The conventions highlighted a new political faultline: not between left and right, but between open and closed (see article). Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, summed up one side of this divide with his usual pithiness. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” he declared.
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Silicon Is Just Sand
Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles tech world. By Stephen Elliott.
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The dividing of America
FROM “Morning in America” to “Yes, we can”, presidential elections have long seemed like contests in optimism: the candidate with the most upbeat message usually wins. In 2016 that seems to have been turned on its head: America is shrouded in a most unAmerican pessimism. The gloom touches race relations, which—after the shooting of white police officers by a black sniper in Dallas, and Black Lives Matter protests against police violence, followed by arrests, in several cities—seem to get ever worse. It also hangs over the economy.
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Kaine clashes with Clinton on abortion funding
Kaine is doubling down on his support for the Hyde Amendment, which Clinton opposes. By Sarah Ferris.
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Despite Objections, Pentagon Takes Step Toward Buying New Nuclear Weapons
The U.S. Air Force has asked defense firms to bid to supply new ICBMs and controversial nuclear cruise missiles. By Marcus Weisgerber.
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