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Caste Links US Racism to Oppressive Structures in India and Nazi Germany.

Gaiutra Bahadur The New Republic
Book cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
Pulitzer prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s new book Caste strives to reveal the structures of US oppression and build kinship. But, while she effectively uses the vocabulary of a systemic problem, the solutions she suggests are not systemic.

AI Tackles Protein Folding (And Wins)

Marc Zimmer The Conversation
I expect AlphaFold2 and its progeny will soon be the methods of choice to determine protein structures before resorting to experimental techniques that require painstaking, laborious work on expensive instrumentation.

Georgia Teens Trying to Flip 60,000 Students

Lauren Floyd Daily Kos
“Our goal is to flip these elections entirely through the student voting bloc." More than 23,000 Georgians are turning 18 between Nov. 3 and Jan. 5 and are eligible to vote in the Senate runoff election.

Friday Nite Videos | December 4, 2020

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Racism Has a Cost for Everyone | Heather C. McGhee. Don't Let My Hair Dye Run | Founders Sing. The War on Cuba — Episode 1. Trump's Lie-atribe, With the Lies Removed. A Self-Pardon Is Incompatible With the Constitution.

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Reader Comments: Stopping Future Authoritarians, Working Class Voters; Nursing Home Workers; Georgia Runoff; Urban-Rural Voter Divide; Biblical Roots of Socialism; China; How to Rebuild the U.S. Economy; Discount/Free Books; Resources; Announcements;

Profits Over People: Frontline Workers During the Pandemic

Martin Hart-Landsberg Reports from the Economic Front
Across the 13 companies in our analysis, revenue was up an average of 14% over last year, while profits rose 39%. Stock prices rose on average 30% since the end of February. In total...

1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

Jochen Bittner The New York Times
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.

The Tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn

Joshua Leifer Jewish Currents
Criticism of Israeli policies and expressions of Palestine solidarity, while always to some degree controversial, had long been part of acceptable political discourse on the British left-of-center. That is no longer the case.