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Financial Amnesia
Banks routinely dump money on sketchy white-owned businesses ventures, but if you’re Black, it’s often a different story
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Marlon Weems
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A Nightmare in Little Rock
A story from back in the day
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Marlon Weems
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Don’t Worry About Trump Tweaking Economic Numbers. Yet.
Why last week’s unemployment numbers were on the up and up
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Marlon Weems
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Zohran Mamdani and the Reckoning for Democrats! w/ Marlon Weems
A recording from Marlon Weems and Danielle Moodie's live video
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Marlon Weems
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Danielle Moodie
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The Problem with Allies
A walkthrough of how media partners with so-called allies to shape narratives
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June 2025

When Ordinary Risk Becomes Risk³
Tariffs, deportations, and wars—oh sh*t
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Marlon Weems
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Ceasefire. Or Not.
We have officially reached f-bomb on the White House lawn stage of diplomacy
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Marlon Weems
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Hormuz.
The Strait of Hormuz is being named-dropped by news anchors turned Middle East experts, but its significance is rarely explained.
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The PayPal Mafia’s Eminence Grise
Because he operates behind the scenes, Peter Thiel might be the most dangerous billionaire you’ve never heard of
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Marlon Weems
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A Conversation on Immigration with Arturo Dominguez
A recording from Marlon Weems's live video
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Marlon Weems
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Arturo Dominguez
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Egberto Willies
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For-Profit Prisons: They Are Who We Thought They Were
Back in November, I about how for-profit prisons stood to reap a huge windfall from the Trump administration as it ramped up mass deportations.
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