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How ComEd and Exelon turned utility regulation on its head

Unless Congress acts, these programs will pay their last benefits for the week ending December 26.

From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars

A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

We can’t get rid of policing as we know it if we continue to value one person’s time and labor over another’s, which is a requirement of racialized capitalism.

From how the Green Revolution actually harmed farmers from Punjab and Haryana to what needs to be done now, farmers seem pretty well-versed with their agriculture. New farm laws are feared to be leading to a ‘corporatisation’ of rural India.

Hallel Rabin spent 56 days in an Israeli military prison for refusing to serve in the Israel Defense Force. Rabin, 19, talks about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.

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.

For the first time in recent history, Venezuela’s left is divided. Will this disrupt the PSUV’s plans to retake control of the National Assembly?

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.