In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation, writes Matthew Desmond for the #1619Project. “Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case brought by Republican state officials, and backed by the Trump administration, seeking to destroy the Affordable Care Act. But there are reasons to think the law, or at least most of it, may survive.
We visited three small farms where we found people nurturing networks to see how we can grow together.
For the last four years, Maggie Haberman "has been the human incarnation of a nation riveted, like it or not, by Donald Trump," Ben Smith writes.
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