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When New York City Stood With Chile

Mariana Fernández Indypendent
The Friends of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende Benefit Concert, on May 11, 1974, was one of the first to openly confront the intervention of the U.S. government in the military coup that had overthrown Salvador Allende a year earlier.

NYC Is Totally Unprepared for Climate Disaster

Kate Aronoff The New Republic
If hordes of cops are going to keep polluting New York’s increasingly flood-prone subways, the least they could do is grab a bucket and be helpful.

A New Picture of When We Mated With Other Kinds of Humans

Maddie Burakoff and Laura Ungar AP
DNA evidence shows that H. sapiens mated with groups including Neanderthals and Denisovans. It even reveals evidence of other “ghost populations” — groups who are part of our genetic code, but whose fossils we haven’t found yet.

The Lost History of East Germany

Samuel Clowes Huneke The Daily Beast
Katya Hoyer argues for a closer look at the triumphs and travails of everyday life under socialism.