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Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier

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Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country’s trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice

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Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control. And Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist on the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? And Sohrab Ahmari, co-founder of Compact Magazine, offers a left–right hybrid.

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Nancy MacLean, author of this paper, on how Milton Friedman’s war on public education fit nicely with Southern massive resistance to desegregation • Klaus Jacob, a geophysicist, on how we can live with rising seas and heavier rains

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Holiday-season encore presentation: historian David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics, and economist Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the US racial wealth gap, 1860–2020

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Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles and Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism

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Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of this article, on the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry, and economist Sanjay Reddy on the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university.

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Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on her new book, Fit Nation, a history of physical culture in the US. Plus fundraising pleas.

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Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them), and Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s.

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Environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the COP27 climate conference, and Lyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, on masculinity, the Marines, and imperial violence

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Jodi Dean on the political landscape in the wake of last week’s election, and Tobias Hübinette, author of this article, on the role of immigration the backlash against Swedish social democracy.

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Joel Schalit talks about the return of Bibi Netanyahu in Israel; Mohammad Salemy, about the tripartite structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran; and Megan Kinch, about a labor upsurge in Ontario.

photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

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Political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on the Brazilian elections, and Mina Khani and Mohammad Salemy on the women-led uprising in Iran.

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Jamieson Webster, author of this article, examines what severe psychological distress among adolescents is telling us about American society, and Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left, looks at the history, personnel, and status of today’s radicalism.

photo: Paola Chaaya via Unsplash

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Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute explains why Saudi Arabia cut its oil production dramatically, and James Meadway, former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn and now director of the Progressive Economy Forum, explains why Britain is in economic and political crisis.

photo: Robin Sommer via Unsplash

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Forrest Hylton on Brazilian elections, and Dorit Geva on why women leaders are prominent on the far right these days.

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Fundraising special, featuring Anatol Lieven on the horror in Ukraine, and Anne Rumberger, author of this article, on the history of the Christian right’s attitudes toward abortion (they weren’t always against it).

photo: Elena Mozhvilo via Unsplash

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Fundraiser special: excerpts from 2004, 2005, and 2009 Behind the News interviews with Barbara Ehrenreich, one of the great journalists of our time, who died on September 1.

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Mario Pino revisits Chilean voters’ rejection of a proposed new constitution, and Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents and author of this article, explores the problems with organizing your politics around grievance.

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