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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/7/2021

The Fissure Between Republicans and Business is Less Surprising than it Seems

by Jennifer Delton

Friction between the Trump-led Republican Party and big business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce over supposed "woke capitalism" isn't a new story. Big business's partisan allegiances have shifted according to capital's interests for decades.

SOURCE: New York Times
9/3/2020

In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.’s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control

“The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate,” Mr. Powell writes, “by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America.”