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Crypto Crash Explained: How Crypto Repeated Wall Street’s Mistakes.

May 20, 2022

Everyone is panicking about cryptocurrency. We’re going to unpack what’s happening for you, by looking at the fallout of a different market crash.

Jordan Klepper Meets the MyPillow Guy

May 20, 2022

Jordan Klepper traveling to a Wisconsin rally hosted by Mike Lindell to hear all about the latest election fraud claims as he goes head-to-head with the MyPillow guy himself. #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #MikeLindell #DailyShow

Now Is the Time for Reparations: India Walton on Buffalo Mass Shooting

May 20, 2022

We go to Buffalo to speak with India Walton, longtime community activist and former mayoral candidate, about the city’s systemic racism and segregation, which has led to “food apartheid.”

May 20, 2022

Is Blood of Iconic Journalist Redder Than Blood of Anonymous Palestinians?

Gideon Levy Haaretz

The blood of a famous journalist, no matter how brave and experienced she was – and she was – is no redder than the blood of an anonymous high school student who was traveling home in a taxi full of women in this same Jenin a month ago.

May 20, 2022

Summer Lee Is Running for Congress Because People Are Disillusioned With Politics

Teen Vogue Staff Teen Vogue

Summer Lee is the apparent victor in a close race for Congress in Pennsylvania. Days before the election, she explains why she thinks we need to transform how politics work in the U.S., and let young people lead.

May 20, 2022

Abortion and Privacy

Myra Marx Ferree The Gender Policy Report

The loss of the Roe right to abortion will begin to unravel a whole skein of privacy rights. A radical solution would be to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to ensure access to the full spectrum of childrearing and reproductive rights.

May 20, 2022

Samuel Alito: One Angry Man

Aziz Huq Politico

If Alito gets his way — and there is no reason to think he won’t — the Supreme Court will increasingly be a religious censor: keeping women in their lane, imposing "Christian rights," and preventing uppity scientists from getting their wicked way.

May 20, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | May 20, 2022

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India Walton on Buffalo Mass Shooting. Jordan Klepper Meets the MyPillow Guy. Crypto Crash Explained: How Crypto Repeated Wall Street’s Mistakes. How Chile's Socialists Won. Bush's Gaffe; Republicans Vote Against Baby Formula.

May 19, 2022

How Everyone Got So Lonely

Zoë Heller The New Yorker

The recent decline in rates of sexual activity has been attributed variously to sexism, neoliberalism, and women’s increased economic independence. How fair are those claims—and will we be saved by the advent of the sex robot?

May 19, 2022

What’s It Like To Strike?

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press

Strikes, once common, are rare today. We asked readers to share their strike stories.