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The Fog of War

Dennis Normile Science
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

One Brief Shining Moment

Adam Hochschild The New York Review of Books
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

America’s Great Brain Drain

Robert Hunziker Dissident Voice
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.

Sunday Science: On Being Wrong

Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk
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.

The PKK Is Gone, Having ‘Fulfilled Its Historic Mission’

Tiziano Saccucci Il Manifesto Global
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.

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity

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