The Timeless Appeal of Going For It
Two-step in your jeans fellow denizen of Earth, for the days are waning, the planet is burning, and that beat will just not quit
The Overgrown
Journalist Jesse Mechanic writes on politics, human rights, fascism, imperialism and occasionally, music.
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Read 9 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 5 years.
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It's Only Indoctrination When They Don't Like It
The outrage over critical race theory isn't about substance, it's about identity
Canceling Student Debt Will Help Health Care Workers and Advance Racial Justice
New article just published on Truthout
We Could End Poverty Today. So Why Don't We?
It's not a radical notion, it's a humane one.
Lowering The Relief Check Threshold Would Be a Self-Inflicted Disaster
Sending checks to fewer people than Trump is harmful and dumb
There Will Be More Marjorie Taylor Greenes
She is the inevitable result of emboldening ignorance and destroying truth
U.S. Healthcare Isn’t a Failure, It’s a Horrific Success
Our system is designed to make money, not to offer universal, equitable care
Nationalism is Ridiculous (Video)
We have re-edited our video on nationalism, and posted it over on our brand new YouTube channel. We also have a bunch of new videos that will go up on the channel later this week—and next—so please, all of you kind, sweet, beautiful humans, subscribe and hit that bell.
Big Announcement!
Apologies on the click-bait headline.
The Opioid Epidemic Rages in the Background
2019 set a new record for overdose deaths, and 2020 is primed to shatter it