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Happy birthday to America! Our July/August issue, celebrating 250 years of our country, is live today. It's a packed issue, featuring pieces by @BernieSanders, @ZohranKMamdani, @Janefonda, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and many more of our best thinkers. Subscribe to read the whole issue now: https://t.co/iJh9hpMCwv.

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The Palestinians’ fight for self-determination has its own history separate from the unfinished revolution of Iran, even if they carry the same belief that dignity, freedom, and justice belong to all.
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“Denver voters of all ages, of all races, of all religions sent a clear message: We will not wait!” Melat Kiros said at last night’s victory rally, promising to end ICE, provide universal healthcare and end genocide in Palestine.
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The standard of living for most people turns on their income, not their capital gains. And although the average pay rate for Americans is rising, the compensation of the super-wealthy has risen so far and so fast that they’re bringing up the average.
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Abortion care has never been guaranteed in America, not even under Roe v. Wade, despite being essential to a functioning democracy and gender equality.
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While Martin W. Dolan’s name was being projected across Midtown, I was upstate, in my final semester of a master’s degree in English literature, and trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do next.
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Why are so many people feeling bad about the economy? Every poll shows that Americans are deeply unhappy about the state of things. Consumer sentiment has dropped about 20 percent below where it was a year ago.
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There are two founding fathers who seemed to understand that abortion was essential to the exercise of our unalienable rights.
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"In the summer of 1983, my parents were sitting at the lunch table in their small apartment in downtown Tehran when Revolutionary Guards appeared at their door and took them away."
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“A year ago, a lot of experienced people told us this was impossible,” the Democratic socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros told a cheering crowd at her Denver victory rally.
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The thing about anniversaries, writes Fatima Jalloh, is that they end and people move on. But the work of liberation must not end. https://t.co/JECGFcUiq5

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Martin W. Dolan, New York candidate for Congress, lost his primary by a landslide. But first, he drove me insane.
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It’s time to shout from the rooftops against MAGA’s perversion of the American Dream and to start articulating a better, kinder, and more decent future, writes Sasha Abramsky. That’s a far better way to celebrate than mindlessly chanting “USA, USA."
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The Palestinians’ fight for self-determination has its own history separate from the unfinished revolution of Iran, even if they carry the same belief that dignity, freedom, and justice belong to all.
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You want to celebrate America’s birthday? Then, writes Sasha Abramsky, skip the Trump show in Washington, DC, and start organizing.
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For 250 years, America has failed to treat women as though they were equal to men. If we were truly considered as such, abortion would be as easy to access as ibuprofen.
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Congress and the courts aren’t going to rescue us from authoritarianism—but the public just might, writes Sasha Abramsky.
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Over the past two years, Martin W. had developed a reputation not as a moderate but as an outright anti-progressive Democrat.
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America will never grow older than the lands on which it sits, still answering to its elders: the tribes, stewards of the earth, who continue to struggle for sovereignty. https://t.co/JECGFcUiq5

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This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar.
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"In the summer of 1983, my parents were sitting at the lunch table in their small apartment in downtown Tehran when Revolutionary Guards appeared at their door and took them away."
https://t.co/ZBS4OYrzKi