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Farming in the Dark

Diana Kruzman Ambrook Research
Chemist Feng Jiao and Robert Jinkerson, a specialist in artificial photosynthesis, contend that their system — known as “electro-agriculture” — could convert electricity into chemical energy with four times the efficiency of photosynthesis.

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Gift to Capital, Not Workers

An interview with Vivek Chibber Jacobin
Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a way to revive American manufacturing. But without a real industrial strategy, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber argues, they’re little more than a handout to capital.

Waiting

Geneffa Jahan Porter Gulch Review 2024
In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

Upwardly Minded: The Reconstruction Rise of a Black Elite

Lawrence Otis Graham The New York Times
This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.