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Potential Changes to SS Disability Insurance

The anticipated regulation could reduce eligibility for new applicants to the SSDI program by as much as 20 percent overall, and up to 30 percent among older workers, 10% reduction could result in 500,000 people losing access over 10 years.

New Study Shows What ChatGPT Does to Our Brains

What happens to your brain when you use AI? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore current research into how large language models affect our cognition, memory, and learning with Nataliya Kosmyna.

The Israeli Right’s ‘Time of Miracles’ Is Over.

While problematic for many reasons, Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza appears to spell the end of the Israeli government’s expulsion fantasies.

Bravery As Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy

In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.

He invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants To Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid

Here’s What Never Arrived

“Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

Shutdown Messaging Draws Hatch Act Challenges

While Hatch Act is the focus of several complaints, one group is arguing the messages violate federal appropriations law.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Deserve Better

Epstein and his trafficking ring of ultra-wealthy figures expose how patriarchy and oligarchy conspire to crush victims, then empower men like Trump with such staggering impunity that they can become president.
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The Story of White People

Tony Hoagland
Poet Tony Hoagland commemorates the transition from innocence to knowledge, from privilege to guilt.

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MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA

Alex Keeney Politico
The nation’s most prominent — and most politically active — women’s pro sports league is on a collision course with Donald Trump.

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My Grandpa Was Two

Peter Neil Carroll
Stopping in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, during a trip along the Mississippi, historian and poet Peter Carroll contemplates the flow of time.

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Labor Relations in Germany – Three Snapshots

Thomas Klikauer Z Network
German labor relations aren’t dead. Workers are fighting – in courts, in meat factories, in airports. These workers will not surrender. Whatever dirty tactics management throws at them – they stand firm.

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‘A Leader Who Will Fight for Us’

Ralph Palladino The Chief
Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani’s decisive win over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic Party primary has the billionaire class, large corporate real estate owners and the many in the moderate Democratic establishment freaking out.

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Paige Gebhardt Cognetti Political Ad

The mayor of Scranton, PA, announces a run for a key swing Congressional seat with a blistering message about inherited privilege and economic inequality.

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Epstein Update Rocks Trump World

Trump’s Epstein problem just got much worse, with accusations from a top Trump official. Plus the latest on the Republican shutdown.

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Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal

When Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of Congress next week, she will be the crucial 218th vote to force a vote on release of the Epstein files. What comes next?