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Frank Deale
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Professor of Law, Cuny Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
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The World Turned Upside Down
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The World Turned Upside Down
The developing world is apparently going to have to do the heavy climate lifting
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November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The Absolutely Crazy Story Behind Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Rebate Checks
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The Absolutely Crazy Story Behind Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Rebate Checks
Trump is seriously confused
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November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Mamdani’s Big Bet
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Mamdani’s Big Bet
Slavoj Žižek
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November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost www.juancole.com/2025/11/prep...
The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost
Written byGuest Contributor   By Masum Mahbub ( GlobalVoices.org ) - A ceasefire was finally signed. Humanitarian organizations are scaling up operations to reach families facing famine after nearly t...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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How to tolerate annoying things | Psyche Guides psyche.co/guides/how-t...
How to tolerate annoying things | Psyche Guides
Hassles are part of life, but the way we react often makes them worse. ACT skills can help you handle them with greater ease
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November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan: Mamdani's Win Is a Victory for Hope | TIME time.com/7330596/zohr...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan: Mamdani's Win Is a Victory for Hope
Mamdani's historic election shows that New Yorkers—like Londoners—chose not to renounce the values which define us.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Tony Harrison, Poet of the Working Class, Is Dead at 88 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
Tony Harrison, Poet of the Working Class, Is Dead at 88
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November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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62 Years Later: Revisiting JFK’s Assassination Through Edward Curtin’s New Book scheerpost.com/2025/11/22/6...
62 Years Later: Revisiting JFK’s Assassination Through Edward Curtin’s New Book
“JFK Assasination Zapruder Film” by e-strategyblog.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Today, the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we are …
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November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Two decades later, Cornel West’s critique of Larry Summers hits differently - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Two decades later, Cornel West’s critique of Larry Summers hits differently
After his public feud with the former Harvard president, West sees irony in Summers’ downfall.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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A Republic, If You Can Count to 51: Why the Filibuster’s Demise Could Save Democracy
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A Republic, If You Can Count to 51: Why the Filibuster’s Demise Could Save Democracy
Let debate rage for days, then vote, as the founders intended; end the antique veto and force both parties to own their visions before the people…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Are Hispanics America’s New Jews?
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Are Hispanics America’s New Jews?
That was the realignment that was
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November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The Cost of Detaining and Deporting One Person in America www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Here’s What It Can Cost to Detain and Deport Just One Person
After one man was sent to multiple detention centers across the country and spent over 4 months in custody, his journey shows deportation under the Trump administration is anything but straightforward...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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From the man who led an insurrection against the United States.

Trump calls Democrats ‘traitors’ for ‘seditious behavior’ in video to military - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump: Democrats ‘traitors’ for telling military not to follow unlawful orders
The president said lawmakers who appeared in a video committed “seditious behavior” and should be arrested and put on trial for treason.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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It Matters That the Extremely Close 2024 US Election Results Were Not Due to "the Economy" www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/it-m...
It Matters That the Extremely Close 2024 US Election Results Were Not Due to "the Economy"
Three hundred sixty-four days ago was Election Day 2024.  The polls going into the final weeks had been tight, but Donald Trump's increasing...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Could President Trump Be Punished for Killing Suspected Drug Traffickers on the High Seas?: verdict.justia.com/2025/11/04/c...
Could President Trump Be Punished for Killing Suspected Drug Traffickers on the High Seas?
University of Chicago law professor emeritus Albert W. Alschuler examines whether President Donald Trump could face legal consequences—either domestically or internationally—for ordering the U.S. mili...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life” - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life”
The retrospective is the most extensive ever staged in the UK. It leans heavily on gender politics, largely omitting the deeper ideological and historical events and issues that shaped Miller’s work a...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Remembering Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist, killed on this day, Nov. 20, 1936, while defending Madrid.
Photo of Buenaventura Durruti with a quote, “fascism is not to be debated, it is to be destroyed!”
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Why Is Healthcare Expensive?
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Why Is Healthcare Expensive?
It's the Costly Trinity: Drugs, Insurers, and Doctors
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November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
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Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
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November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush: A century after its release - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Charlie Chaplin’s <em>The Gold Rush</em>: A century after its release
In creating his Little Tramp character, Chaplin took a social type that was reviled by official bourgeois society—the vagrant, the unemployed man, the person without property—and turned him into argua...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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New Trump Rule Declares Most Public Service Work 'Illegal,' Ineligible For Loan Forgiveness - Above the Law abovethelaw.com/2025/10/new-...
New Trump Rule Declares Most Public Service Work 'Illegal,' Ineligible For Loan Forgiveness - Above the Law
Don't fall for their nonsense, this is a broadside against public service.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Legal expert warns hostile juries 'will spread' as Trump admin's abuse grows

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Legal expert warns hostile juries 'will spread' as Trump admin's abuse grows
Former prosecutor Elie Honig warns that juries will increasingly turn on President Donald Trump’s prosecutors in the upcoming months.“When I was a brand new prosecutor at the Southern District of New ...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Trump administration revokes visa of Wole Soyinka, first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump administration revokes visa of Wole Soyinka, first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Soyinka, 91, has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration over its inhumane treatment of immigrants.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with a chemical weapon. What can California do about it? www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/30/f...
A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with a chemical weapon. What can California do about it?
A violent response to an Oakland protest raises the same legal questions other states are grappling with as Trump’s immigration crackdown intensifies.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM