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A new paper on multilevel cultural evolution shows how looking to our cultural evolutionary origins might help us improve society.

The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama

As California is pummeled by unprecedented storms and wildfires, corporations are fighting a landmark bill exposing their true contributions to climate change.

The five-year period of ‘peace’ in reality strengthens the ability of the capitalists to wage class war, while severely limiting the leverage of workers because of the no-strike clause in effect for the contract’s duration.

Twelfth-century peasants developed commons practices to survive domination. We could use them to reclaim our lives from capitalism.

Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale …

In 1997, Barbara Ehrenreich went after the human attraction to violence in her book Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Now, in an updated, adapted version of an afterword, she turns from the origins of war to its endpoint.

Two diametrically opposed groups of people, operating under two totally different definitions of “the enemy,” cannot unite in any meaningful sense.

"First Amendment, what's that?" in 1918. GIs sit-in, go to jail in 1968. An invasion is an invasion in 1968. KKK run out of town in 1923. Lead paint deadly in 1983 (and it still is). Trying to outlaw war in 1928. March on Washington in 1963.

"September" met with mathematician and Russian left-wing politician Mikhail Lobanov to discuss his foreign agent status, his dismissal from Moscow State University and potential approaches to anti-war political organizing in Russia.