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Friday
September 8, 2020

Donald Trump Is the Military-Industrial Complex

The president says the generals hate him because he ends endless wars. That ain't it, chief.

By Adam Weinstein

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	My 98 Days in Unemployment Purgatory As a reporter covering unemployment, I thought I knew everything I needed to get by. Then I was laid off.By Clio Chang

	The American Horror of Hooding “Spit hoods” are torture, and Daniel Prude is only the latest victim.By Tasha Williams and Alison Kinney

	The End of the University The pandemic should force America to remake higher education. By Astra Taylor

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	Trumpian Politics Is the Greatest Threat to a Coronavirus VaccineThere’s no inoculation for what this election season might do to the vital science of ending the pandemic. By Libby Watson

	The Monsoon Season That Drowned Chennai, India Anjali Ponni Rajkumar saw her government fail. And she saw the stark divide between rich and poor. By Kirsi-Marja Hayrinen-Beschloss

	The Anti-Democratic Origins of Voter Prediction How the Simulmatics Corporation tried to engineer an election—and paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal By J.C. Pan

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