Sunday Science: On Being Wrong

Is Neil deGrasse Tyson ever wrong? Neil and Chuck Nice break down all the ways he can be wrong, big moments when scientists were wrong from history, and why science itself is never wrong.

America’s Great Brain Drain

America’s shores are experiencing a huge sucking sound as one of the biggest brain drains of modern history hits the country’s best, smartest, heading for Europe on grants, as smiles abound across the pond.

One Brief Shining Moment

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti

It is this – and so much more – that makes theirs a truly American story.

The Fog of War

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, researchers are still struggling to document the long-term health effects of the massive spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides

Unpacking the House’s Highly Regressive Tax Plan

Two-thirds of the tax cuts offered in 2027 would go to the top 20% of families, and 41% would flow to just the top 5% of families.

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity

Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ offers an incisive perspective on Zionism and Jewish identity.

America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism and Policing

As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.

‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’

This counterrevolution is strange because there never was a revolution. They’re upset about pronouns. They’re upset that their workers want some workplace democracy. They’re upset about DEI. They really believe that their power should be absolute.

The PKK Renounces Armed Struggle Seeks Legal Struggle

The PKK has dissolved itself, but leaves behind a renewed political vision the final communiqué calls “socialism of a democratic society”: anti-hierarchical, feminist, ecological and municipalist, rejecting the nation-state and statist socialism.
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Culture

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Muriel Rukeyser The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world.

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Mr. Lonely

Zoë Hu Dissent Magazine
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

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Day 570

Anita Barrows
California poet Anita Barrows writes: "When the genocide began I started writing daily notes. I felt the urgency to document these tragedies in a whole poem every day, and that is what I will do until the genocide ends. I intend to keep writing."

Labor

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Starbucks Dress Code Causes Walkouts

Grace Snelling Fast Company
The union has been bargaining to reach a contract with Starbucks for over three years, with no end in sight. It says that the new dress code represents “bad faith bargaining,” .

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UFCW President Stepping Down, Successor To Be Appointed This Week

Lisa Xu Labor Notes
United Food and Commercial Workers President Mark Perrone is expected to announce his retirement this week. The reform organization Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) is pushing for a transparent and democratic process to choose a successor.

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Democrats Learned To Love Class Dealignment

Neal Meyer Jacobin
The neoliberal economic program embraced by the Clinton-era Democratic Party alienated many working-class voters. Democrats responded by reorienting their electoral strategy toward professional-class voters, accelerating workers’ departure

Friday nite video

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Trump's Epic 'Weave'

Concluding his Mideast corruption tour in the United Arab Emirates, Trump engages in a 15 minute ramble about Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg’s bicycle