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  1. Jimi Swagger

    What is the point of political media?

    Left-wing media is crucial to the success of left-wing ideas… by NATHAN J. ROBINSON It’s tempting, when you write about politics, to think that you are useless. And if the received view of political media is correct, you probably are: people choose the news sources that they agree with, thus...
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    Why Workers Are Losing to Capitalists

    Automation and offshoring may be conspiring to reduce labor's share of income. Maybe he had a point. Back in April, I wrote about one of the most troubling mysteries in economics, the falling labor share. Less of the income the economy produces is going to people who work, and more is going...
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    I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer.

    By David A. Ansell David A. Ansell is a professor of internal medicine, senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, and author of “The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills.” Sarai was 25 years...
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    Our Constitution Wasn’t Built for This

    By GANESH SITARAMANSEPT. 16, 2017 Exactly 230 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1787, a group of men in Philadelphia concluded a summer of sophisticated, impassioned debates about the fate of their fledgling nation. The document that emerged, our Constitution, is often thought of as part of an...
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    Johnny Manziel: The NFL Owners’ ‘Good Boy’

    In Colin Kaepernick, NFL owners see a threat. In Johnny Manziel, they see themselves. Former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel takes an elevator with his lawyer, Jim Darnell, after a court hearing in Dallas on Tuesday, February 28, 2017. (AP / LM Otero) When NFL owners look at out-of-work...
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