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  Feffer: The Mobster-in-Chief

  Will the November Election Be Decided in the Streets?
• Allsop: Last night was the logical endpoint of debates in America

  “Horrific.” “A total mess.” “An embarrassment.” “A national humiliation.” “An epic moment of national shame.” “Off the rails.” “A pure trainwreck.”
• Hartmann: A COVID Primer for Your Trump-Loving Friends

  If America doesn’t shut down the virus fairly quickly, it may become so widespread that a testing and contact-tracing strategy is impossible, leaving the next president with an unrecoverable disaster to deal with
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  Nolan: What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.

  Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.
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  Pahnke: Amid COVID and Wildfires, Farmworkers Have Been Pushed to the Brink

  Farmworker organizations are leading the way in showing us the need for reform; the question is if the rest of us will stand with some of the most essential people who sacrifice so much to feed us daily
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  Hartmann: The Threat of Fascism Won’t End with Trump

  It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy
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  Raina: Taxing Trump

  Is it nice to criticize Trump for avoiding taxes? Or,...
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  Staff: Selected Comments Sent to Z

  Selected comments came in private emails which is why they...
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  Solomon: Tax Revelations and Corporate Media Won’t Defeat Trump

  Those who want to prevent another Trump victory should go all-out to show they won’t be fooled again
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  Cohn: From a Justice for Gender Equality to a “Justice” for Gender Oppression

  Amy Coney Barrett and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could not be more different when it comes to their respective notions of justice
• McCal­lum: American Workers Have Lost Control of Their Time. It’s Time To Take It Back.

  Whether it’s working longer hours, having no control over work schedules, or scrambling to find enough hours to pay the bills, American workers have lost control of their working time. Getting that time back is crucial—for workers’ well-being, for democracy and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss.
• Germanos: ‘No Confirmation Before Inauguration’

  "The people demand that OUR NEEDS ARE MET before the Senate entertains the idea of confirming a new justice days before the most important presidential election of our lifetime."
• Aludaini: We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer

  In Gaza, we have two enemies: the coronavirus and the Israeli occupation
• Smith: Telling the Truth About Slavery Is Not ‘Indoctrination’

  Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.
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  Wittner: Where Does the Democratic Party Stand on War, Peace, and International Relations?

  In this November’s elections, American voters will have a clear choice as to what kind of role they want their country to play in the world
• Theoharis: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in America

  Or How to Legislate Evil and Punish the Poor
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  Raina: The Post-Truth Requirements of ‘Development’ and Parliament as an Artifact

  Although India is still saddled with a parliament, a colonial bugbear, the last six years or so have seen a gradual, but now more rapid, informal switch over to a desired and desirable presidential form.
• A. Haught: Babbling in ‘Tongues’

  Will much of Christianity be transformed into jerking, howling, swooning congregations who utter incoherent sounds?  If so, that’s one more reason for thinking people to renounce irrational supernaturalism.
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  Albert: Lydia Sargent, Live Like Her

  Death when one is diminished is devastating. Death when one...
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  Cook: The Guardian’s deceit-riddled new statement betrays both Julian Assange and journalism

  Of course, none of these corporate journalists – only Assange – is being put on trial, revealing clearly that this is a political trial to silence Assange and disable Wikileaks.
• Rathi: The Fate of Our Rights Won’t Be Determined by Amy Coney Barrett, But by Popular Struggle

  Shaping the law of the land is within the grasp of ordinary people, and it’s time for us to close that hand into a fist