WORLD The Human Carnage From Billionaires Trying to Carve Up the Planet to Build Their Empires Is Astounding [Vijay Prashad / AlterNet]

Two Major Magazines Go There After Trump's Abominable Response to Charlottesville [Oliver Holmes / The Guardian]

Why Can't White Supremacists Confront the Fact That the Source of Their Economic Problems Are White Economic Elites? [Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump’s ‘Long History of Racism’ [TruthDig]

America Has Entered an Age of Sadness and Despair—and Our President Personally Made This Possible [Bob Cesca / Salon]

From racism to climate change, CEOs keep turning on Trump [Matt Egan]

How the Justice System Crushes People Who Can't Afford Bail [ Mehak Anwar / Brave New Films]

This Country Is Rigged in 1,000 Directions to Protect the Wealthiest—Including the Idea That Most People 'Earned' Their Way to the Top [ Donald Jeffries / Skyhorse Publishing]

Best Sums Up Republican Democrat Tax Debate:

Teaching Civic Skills and Action Should Be Standard in Schools [Ralph Nader / TruthDig]

The Day Has Finally Arrived: America's Pathological Liar-in-Chief Has Threatened North Korea With Nuclear Annihilation [Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet]

A Leader of the Keystone Opposition Talks About Building Progressive Coalitions in Red America [D.D. Guttenplan / The Nation]

Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry

America Has a Long and Storied Socialist Tradition. DSA Is Reviving It [John Nichols / The Nation]

Stephen Miller blasted a reporter as ‘cosmopolitan.’ But he lives in a $1 million CityCenter condo [Emily Heil / Washington Post]

Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S. [Lisa Friedman / NYT]

Rampant White Supremacy at the White House As Trump Tries to Distract His Base [Amanda Marcotte / Salon]

A Million Children on the Verge of Death by Cholera—Will Anyone Lift a Finger? [Vijay Prashad / AlterNet]

Economic Forces Drive the Youths Joining Terrorist Groups in Syria [Juan Cole / Informed Comment]

46 Million Slaves in the World, More than ever in History: Here's one example