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Robert Reich | It's Not All About the Culture War - Democrats Helped Shaft the Working Class
Robert Reich, Guardian UK
Reich writes: "After Tuesday's Democratic loss in the Virginia gubernatorial election and near-loss in New Jersey, I'm hearing a narrative about Democrats' failure with white working-class voters that is fundamentally wrong."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Push for Greater Action on Global Warming at the COP26 Climate Talks
Lisa Friedman, The New York Times
Friedman writes: "Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a delegation of nearly two dozen House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, which Ms. Pelosi said was the largest group of Congress members to attend a climate summit."
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A Secret Tape Made After Columbine Shows the NRA's Evolution on School Shootings
Tim Mak, NPR
Mak writes: "Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away."
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How to Fix Facebook
Shirin Ghaffary, Vox
Ghaffary writes: "Now is an urgent time to explore ideas old and new - inside and outside the realm of political reality - about how to confront a seemingly intractable problem: Can Facebook be fixed?"
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Infrastructure Bill Could Power the Largest Expansion in Amtrak's History
Luz Lazo, The Washington Post
Lazo writes: "The funding would help rebuild the Northeast Corridor, but is also a path to bringing service to new cities and towns nationwide."
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French Bishops Agree to Compensate Thousands of Sex Abuse Victims
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "France's Catholic Church has agreed to financially compensate thousands of people who were sexually abused by priests in what the president of the country's Bishops' Conference hailed as a 'decisive step.'"
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The Sponsors of COP26 Are Behind the Corporate Greenwashing Agenda
Robbie Kirk, Jacobin
Kirk writes: "If mainstream commentators were surprised by Greta Thunberg's description of COP26 as a 'greenwashing festival' and a 'celebration of blah blah blah,' there was plenty of evidence for this trajectory in its list of corporate sponsors."
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