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This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Jezebel
  11/22/2022
  

  Alabama Women, Like Predecessors, are Keeping a Strike Alive

  by Kim Kelly

  The Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama has been on for more than 600 days. Labor writer Kim Kelly links miners' endurance to the work of women workers, miners' wives, and other women in past labor struggles. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/28/2022
  

  The "Private Little Hell" of Florida's 1950s Anti-Gay Faculty Investigations

  At least 39 faculty members were forced out of Florida universities under the Johns Committee's investigation of alleged homosexual behavior. But the figure doesn't include the other lives and careers wrecked by the crusade. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/28/2022
  

  The Anniversary of Ukrainian Famine Shows the Past isn't Past

  A famine 90 years ago killed four million Ukrainians—and possibly more, deaths survivors blamed on Soviet Russia. The commemoration is a rallying point of resistance to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/28/2022
  

  A Paris Museum Holds 18,000 Human Skulls, but Won't Say Whose

  By identifying the sources of skulls in its collection, France's Museum of Mankind fears it might open itself to demands for restitution. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/29/2022
  

  What's at Stake in the UC Grad Strike

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  While public support for unions has grown in recent years, it's not clear if the public understands that the working class is now likely to be involved in knowledge work. The strike by University of California graduate workers hopes to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  11/21/2022
  

  Demographics and the Shrinking Future of College

  As the number of students promises to contract in coming years, the workforces and communities that depend on small colleges and regional public universities face dire prospects. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/29/2022
  

  The Cultural Workers Go On Strike

  A "black turtleneck uprising" of museum workers and adjunct professors tells us that brain work has become gig work, challenging cherished myths about education, opportunity and meritocracy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/22/2022
  

  Eastern Europe Brought Soccer Into the Modern Age. Why is it a Wasteland Now?

  A legacy of innovation spurred by Hungarian clubs in the 1930s and 1950s sustained high quality soccer in eastern Europe through the fall of communism, but changing economic and social currents have diminished the competitiveness of former eastern bloc countries in today's big-money game. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/21/2022
  

  Ties Documented Between Legal Activist Challenging Affirmative Action and White Nationalists

  by Jean Guerrero

  Both the activists behind two Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action and the funding network that supports them have close ties to overt white nationalists and anti-immigration leaders, suggesting that the lawsuits are less about fairness for all than about advantage for whites. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/17/2022
  

  Work More, Consume Less: The Coercive Nature of Austerity Politics

  by Clara E. Mattei

  Austerity politics isn't simply about balancing government's books; it is a political means of declaring the primacy of capital. 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  11/18/2022
  

  Will the Philadelphia Museum Strike Change an Industry?

  Will the success of the Philadelphia Museum of Art workers' strike help push more museums toward paying livable wages to their workers? 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  11/20/2022
  

  Qatar Isn't The First Regime to Polish its Image With a World Cup

  Despite "disappearing" 30,000 political opponents, FIFA allowed Argentina's military dicatorship to host the 1978 World Cup. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2022
  

  Virginia Proposes New Social Studies Standards; Experts Charge Political Motivation

  Educators argue that the proposed standards are politically motivated and slant instruction toward right-wing ideological positions. 

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• SOURCE: Defector
  11/15/2022
  

  48,000 UC Academic Workers Striking: You Can't Eat Prestige

  "Without its armada of researchers and grad students, the UC system is essentially a baroque real estate scam." Those workers argue they deserve much more from the system in exchange for the labor that makes it run. 

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  11/15/2022
  

  From the Archives: Bob Maurer on Charles Sherrod and New Communities Farm

  Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/14/2022
  

  The Conservative Movement Has Captured SCOTUS. Now What?

  by Linda Greenhouse

  As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/11/2022
  

  Can the Techniques of Antismoking Ads Work for Gun Violence?

  Antismoking PSAs shifted attention from individual smokers to the tobacco companies profiting from selling dangerous products. Can the same work to reduce the appeal of guns? 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/12/2022
  

  Where the Red Wave that Wasn't Fits in the History of Elections

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Political scientists find that the prediction of a wave election failed for a number of reasons. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/8/2022
  

  Haaland v. Brackeen: The Case that Could Break Native Sovereignty

  by Rebecca Nagle

  "The U.S. has been passing laws that treat tribes and tribal citizens differently from non-Native citizens since the founding of the republic. If that is unconstitutional, the entire legal structure defending the legal rights of Indigenous nations could crumble."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/4/2022
  

  The Sad Death of Affirmative Action

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  New Yorker writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that while the benefit of "diversity" is largely uncontested, the brand of diversity that Harvard and other elite institutions want to ensure is circumscribed by the bounds of economic elitism, a far cry from the high moral purposes originally claimed for affirmative action.