Grinding Streets

"Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me.” John Rechy, City of Night   

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Goodbye, Kevin Drum

"Take care of Donald Trump for me."

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The Black Place

In an autocratic America, I’ll choose my hill to die on.

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Social Security’s Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?

America’s safety net is their next profit scheme — and you’re the target…

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Another catastrophic World War looms that will engulf North America and Europe.

When COVID-19 came to the 21st century five years ago, it altered our psychologically as radically as the Black Death did to those who lived in 14th-century Europe.

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What the Paiva Family Means to Brazil

In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last half-century of Brazil’s democratic travails.

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A train through Germany: is Europe’s powerhouse going off the rails?

In the run-up to Sunday’s crucial election, the Guardian took a long journey through Europe’s heartland to find out what voters think

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Requiem For The West

Trump and Vance have put a stake in the heart of the free world.

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Porn stars: Oscar favorite 'Anora' gets sex work right

For a film about sex work to win an Oscar is rare."The sex work industry as a whole is really skeptical of any film having to do with sex work," says Calvert.

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Black-owned restaurants in Memphis: 100+ spots to try, from soul food to seafood

From A&R Bar-B-Que to Zodiac Grill on Wheels, here is your ultimate guide to Black-owned restaurants and food businesses in Memphis.

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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More

Howard Lutnick has revealed Donald Trump’s true plans.

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Home Base: Democracy dies

Two of my teachers growing up had an outsized impact on my life. They helped build the foundation for my becoming a journalist.

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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

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Why My Memories of Being Taken From My Mom at the Border Came Flooding Back

I was taken from my mom at age 10. The memory of my agonizing journey has come flooding back since Trump’s reelection.

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The New Plutocracy

The United States is not a democracy. It is a plutocracy. It is not simply a plutocracy because of Donald Trump’s presidency and the likes of Elon Musk and other billionaires who are running the government. The most recent Forbes listing of the richest Americans points to a concentration of wealth never seen in US history.

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Investigation into death of Buford Pusser's wife now in hands of district attorney

The death of famous Sheriff Buford Pusser's wife has been has been examined by the TBI. Now McNairy District Attorney Davidson has decision to make.