What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing

Amie Stager | Workday Magazine
People are hungry for truth telling, but truth telling has a smaller audience because it’s not within people’s realm of comfort or familiarity. That’s how the Right came to dominate, by continuously telling their story. They didn't water it down.

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

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Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat. 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina. ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen. Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Illegal.

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

Eric Blanc, Emily Lemmerman, and Wen Zhuang The Nation
Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

Liset Cruz Type Investigations
These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

How Bad Slavery Was

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Kate Wong Scientific American
Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.