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97 Fatal Encounters: Border Agent Violence Across America

Sarah Macaraeg The Guardian
Members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
In the last 15 years agents with the Customs and Border Protection Agency have used deadly force in states up to 160 miles from the border, from Maine to California. These Customs and Border Protection encounters have proven deadly for at least 97 people – citizens and non-citizens – since 2003.

The Outcome in Arizona

Eric Blanc,Rebecca Garelli, Noah Karvelis, Dylan Wegela Jacobin
After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

The Original Donald Trump

Frank Rich New York Magazine
The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president.

Election Noir

Dorothy Barresi What We Did While We Made More Guns
California poet Dorothy Barresi nails a certain candidate on the campaign trail: "tight tense talk & leering merit of American man" and guess who she means.

The Pain We Still Need to Feel

Jamelle Bouie Slate
The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.