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The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting To Unravel

Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser The New York Times
The Webb telescope data reveal that some very large galaxies formed really fast. This is no minor discrepancy. The finding is akin to parents and their children appearing in a story when the grandparents are still children themselves.

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 5 – 11

Portside
A red Vice-President? in 1983. Prison farm deaths in 1913. West Bank atrocities film bombs in 1983. Who's not a percussionist? in 1953. Dixiecrats kneecap civil rights bill in 1957. Legal liability earthquake in 1973. Chile under the gun in 1973.

Defending Allende

Ariel Dorfman The New York Review of Books
The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.

On Four Global Contradictions

Bill Fletcher Jr., Jerry Harris Convergence
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us in formulating our strategy and tactics on every level—from local to global.

The Movement and the Mayor

Jesse Sharkey Hammer & Hope
We have gone from the dynamic of opposition to the dynamic of a campaign and now to the dynamic of working with our comrade in office, all within a few short months.