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Organizing Against Lincoln

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On August 31, 2015
It's almost hard to believe Abraham Lincoln survived until 1865 given the hate he engendered among northern racists. While we can certainly argue that Lincoln was not that radical compared to Charles Sumner or Thaddeus Stevens, moving a white supremacist nation to eliminate its most...
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Browning Commentary

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On August 31, 2015
There was a lot of good commentary late last week to the NLRB decision in the Browning-Ferris case, ruling that joint employer status applied to this contractor for the purpose of unionization and other labor law, potentially repealing some of corporations' favorite strategies for protecting...
Well now this is interesting: It’s true that “y’all” is “the most identifiable feature of the dialect known as Southern American English.” But where did it come from? And how did it end up in the South? Many discussions of the word connect it to...
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Springtime for Donald

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On August 30, 2015
What does Donald Trump actually want? That is the practical question posed by his increasingly bizarre, and increasingly successful, "campaign." Jon Chait gets the essence of Trump's appeal exactly right: it's not just that, as many people have noted, Trump employs an air raid siren...
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