What’s an Autonomous Zone?

ImageSeattle police and other workers in the protest zone on July 1, 2020.Credit…Ruth Fremson/The New York Times At first they called it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. In early June, protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement took over six city blocks of a gentrified Seattle neighborhood. There, activists screened films, served spaghetti, painted…

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Republican Leaders Want to End Obamacare. Their Voters Are Expanding It.

ImageAmber England, who led the campaign to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot in Oklahoma, talking to supporters online on Tuesday.Credit…Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press Deeply conservative Oklahoma narrowly approved a ballot initiative Tuesday to expand Medicaid to nearly 200,000 low-income adults, the first state to do so in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The vote…

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