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Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Delaware County Courthouse in Delhi, N.Y., June 6, 2020 (Andrew O'Hehir)

Protest in a small town: Why it mattered

Andrew O'Hehir

In a tiny, conservative and virtually all-white community in upstate New York, a nationwide uprising comes to life

Young woman working in coffee house (Getty Images)

The real cost of your morning coffee

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

Millions of enslaved children work and die bringing coffee, chocolate and other goods to your home

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron (Getty Images/Salon)

Europe's big climate comeback

Carl Pope

With the U.S. looking backward and Britain finally out, EU leaders are proposing a bold economic rebuild

Donald Trump | Protestors are tear gassed as the police disperse them near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Militias evaluate beliefs amid protests

Amy Cooter - The Conversation

Militias and patriot groups share concern over government infringement yet differ on support for recent protests

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Trump declares emergency over ICC probe

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain"

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Trump advisers worry as his polls tank

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Donald Trump’s campaign is seriously worried about internal polling that looks very good for Joe Biden.

Donald Trump along with his son Donald, Jr., arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg (C), chief financial officer of The Trump, looks on January 11, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

The only family member to turn on Trump

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story

The book is expected to detail how she leaked her grandfather’s tax documents to the New York Times

Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

Use of algorithm serves up false charges

Stephanie Wykstra - Undark

Using an automated system, Michigan falsely charged thousands with unemployment fraud and took millions from them.

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Protesting: Just what the shrink ordered

Matthew Rozsa

Negative thoughts are bad for your mental health. But there's a social reason so many of us have them

US President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Jim Jordan, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Alex Brandon/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP will no longer defend Trump: report

Sarah K. Burris

Republicans have reportedly decided they aren’t ‘twisting themselves in pretzels’ to defend Trump anymore

Various types of doughnuts (Getty Images)

Bakers are fired up against racism

Ashlie D. Stevens

From Juneteenth pound cakes to virtual bake sales, kitchens have become the venue for more protests

Beer Bread (Joseph Neese)

This no-rise bread has three ingredients

Joseph Neese

Is it possible to make bread without yeast? No, but don't forget that beer already has yeast in it

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Businessmen having a business meeting with team of doctors at doctor's office. (Getty Images)

Investors profit from ER bill mark up

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica

TeamHealth charges multiples more than the cost of ER care. All the money left over goes to the company

Doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in a "White Coats for Black Lives" event in solidarity with George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California on June 11, 2020 (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

"Street" medics treating protesters

LJ Dawson - KFF Health News

Volunteer medics have organized themselves into a web of first responders to care for people on the streets

Matthew McConaughey on 'Uncomfortable conversations with a black man", Trevor Noah from the Social Distancing Daily Show, and the 75 year old man in Buffalo who was knocked down by police (Salon/Comedy Central/Emmanuel Acho/Twitter/@WBFO)

Why are we finally paying attention?

Melanie McFarland

The social progress that's happening now is the result of being stuck at home with no place else to go ... or look

A street sign on Oakland, Calif. graffitied over to say "Floydway", seen during protests over the the death of George Floyd. (Nicole Karlis)

The post-pandemic homelessness boom

Nicole Karlis

Without rent relief for California tenants, housing advocates fear the pandemic will worsen the homelessness crisis

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US might be facing a "Trumpville" crisis

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Rents have been becoming increasingly unaffordable in cities all over the U.S., and the pandemic is making it worse

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Trump attacks Trans people during Pride

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Trump HHS scraps protections for transgender patients and those seeking abortions

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (Getty/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Stacey Abrams vs. Ben Carson

David Edwards - Raw Story

"We do have a day of reckoning, and that day of reckoning is going to continue until we actually make change”

Death in her Hands by Otessa Moshfeigh, Self Care by Leigh Stein, Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie, You Exist too Much by Zaina Arafat, and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Salon/Riverhead Books/Catapult/Blackstone Publishing/Penguin)

To read: "The Vanishing Half" and more

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen

Bennett follows up her bestselling novel "The Mothers" with an epic family tale of race, identity and family trauma

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Ithaca, New York (Getty Images)

The lesson of Ithaca's rent cancellation

Matthew Rozsa

Ithaca, N.Y., may be first city to cancel rent. Economist Richard Wolff says the issue is much larger than that

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Banking crisis to cause financial misery

Alex Henderson - Alternet

UC Berkeley law professor Frank Partnoy warns that another banking crisis is a strong possibility.

Amazon employees hold a protest and walkout over conditions at the company's Staten Island distribution facility on March 30, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Field Museum workers demand transparency

Jeff Schuhrke - In These Times

Backed by DSA and UE, Chicago's Field Museum workers are demanding justice amid COVID-19 cuts

Workers clean graffiti off of an entrance sign to the AFL-CIO headquarters that was vandalized during overnight unrest, June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Labor demands police reform

Bob Hennelly

Structural racism in the US is tied to economic inequality — meaning unions have a perfect chance to foment change

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