Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me, on black radical politics from the Panthers through the Movement for Black Lives. And Kyle Shybunko, author of this piece, on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, a hero to many on the American right.
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A Historical view of Black Radical Politics, and the Viktor Orban Phenom in Hungary

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Aziz Rana, author of  The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy
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The Constitutional fetish

Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict
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Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine

Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here).
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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle

Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism

Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
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A Historical view of Black Radical Politics, and the Viktor Orban Phenom in Hungary

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