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Asians and the “model minority”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.521a11e16eb4
http://mattbruenig.com/2017/04/15/asian-poverty-varies-a-lot-by-group/
Groups where immigrants are mostly low-skill, low-education have high poverty rates; groups wehre immigrants are mostly high-skill, high-education have low poverty rates
Health care
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/veterans-administration-health-care-privatization
VA offers higher quality care than Steve Jobs got
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2005/the-best-care-anywhere-3/
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/25/14375776/pay-for-performance-doctors-bonuses
Eugenics
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-targeted-latinas-forced-sterilization-180968567/
60,000 Americans were sterilized by state eugenics programs. Latinas were disproportionate targets
http://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/familyplanning/2008/10/23/forced-sterilization-in-puerto-rico/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eugenics-crusade/
Optional: 2hr documentary streams for free on PBS.org
The case for public media
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/media-advertising-news-radio-trump-tv/
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/frank_gannett_robert_mccormick_and_a_takeover_bids_backstory.php
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/journalism-newspapers-layoffs-advertising-crisis/
Real world socialism…?
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/social-wealth-fund/
All about social wealth funds
Child welfare
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/17/6336209/adrian-peterson-son-physical-punishment
https://thinkprogress.org/heres-what-happened-the-one-time-when-the-u-s-had-universal-childcare-c965a3178112/
Communism and the Family (technical)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm
Antisemitism…
…and the Palestinian rights movement
https://972mag.com/how-the-sjp-taught-me-to-confront-anti-semitism/133572/
…and McCarthyism/the Red Scare
https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/hunting-communists-they-were-really-after-jews-1.10702
…and the rebirth of the modern day far right
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/antisemitism-squirrel-hill-pittsburgh-shooting-racism
How progressive was Barack Obama?
https://www.salon.com/2010/06/21/obama_137/
Forcing states to embrace school privatization; starving poorest schools for funding
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/01/the-kind-of-policy-we-must-never-make-again
Complicity in Saudi war crimes
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/10/u-s-and-u-k-continue-to-actively-participate-in-saudi-war-crimes-targeting-of-yemeni-civilians/
Approving arms sales to Bahrain as they killed pro-democracy protesters during Arab Spring:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/12/us-saudi-arabia-libya-freedom
Obama and Arab Spring in Egypt:
https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/
Speeches to Wall Street
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/01/barack-obama-is-using-his-presidency-to-cash-in-but-harry-truman-and-jimmy-carter-refused/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/cornel-west-dyson-obama-glen-ford/
Obama attempts to extend the Iraq War:
https://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war/
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