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• The Diagnosis Is Clear. The Way Out Isn’t.

  What does it take to turn a clear diagnosis of capitalism’s violence into a strategy capable of confronting it? In her review of Chris de Ploeg’s The Exterminating Empire: Capitalism’s War on Life from Palestine to the Burning Planet, Alexandria Shaner examines the book’s argument that genocide and ecological destruction are not separate crises, but

• All Too Many Kings

  [Today, let me recommend the splendid latest novel by that splendid novelist Beverly Gologorsky, who once upon a time wrote for me at TomDispatch. Its title: The Angle of Falling Light and in it she draws on her own working-class background (as she has done in the past) to compose a gripping tale of working-class

• In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here are a Few Standouts This Election Season

  In a play by Bertolt Brecht, the persecuted astronomer Galileo says: “Unhappy the land that needs heroes.” Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes – and during this election year, many have emerged. Here are five of the notable ones.  **  Abdul El-Sayed No other major candidate this