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The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.
What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.
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How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.
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