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Was Donald Trump the Antichrist?

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The medieval historian Jay Rubenstein asks the question! The Antichrist associated with this new, literal Babylon was expected to be Jewish. There’s nearly always an anti-Judaic element in Christian apocalyptic. But he could still be Muslim. (Medieval thinkers frequently viewed Judaism and Islam as one mass...
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For tonight's film, let's watch Martin Luther King's 1967 speech at Stanford. Titled "The Other America," here he laid out his late-life quest to fight poverty in a cross-racial campaign that would result in the Poor People's Campaign the next year, sadly after his assassination and...

Burn in Hell

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Good. G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered one of the gravest constitutional crises in American history and led to the resignation of President.

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Hanging workers out to dry

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When nihilists like Greg Abbott prematurely lift and preempt mask mandates, they put ordinary minimum wage workers who don't want to be exposed do a deadly virus in an incredibly difficult position: Abbott's framing of the March 10 executive order has played into the polarity incited...
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Forced Labor in the Supply Chains

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The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It's a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from Turkmenistan—the ninth largest producer and seventh largest exporter of the world’s cotton—was again harvested with forced...

You Don’t Say…

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Interesting stuff at the Monkey Cage on the cultural relevance of guns to America's white conservatives: Studies find that gun rights supporters are highly politically organized and unwavering on their views, while gun.

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