5LL #212 - Empire, Crime, Nature, Feelings, Supermarkets

Ailing Empire Blues
Jed Esty, The Baffler
Declinism in the United States and UK.
A Guide for Reading and Writing About Crime
Alec Karakatsanis, Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
Most reporting about public safety and crime is incomplete and deceptive.
Alyssa Battistoni on Care Work, Organizing, and the "Free Gift of Nature"
Matthew J. Haugen and Alyssa Battistoni, Terrain
Human beings need not just human care, but a lot of other kinds of beings and life and things to survive.
Not Feeling It
Charlie Markbreiter and Xine Yao, The New Inquiry
An interview with Xine Yao on how, and which, feelings are racialized.
The Secret Anti-Socialist History of Supermarkets
Ann Larson, Jacobin
Supermarkets are staples of our lives. But their emergence in America was far from automatic: the supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.
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