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Harvard T. H. Chan Newsletter Harvard T. H. Chan Newsletter
Observational research has found that tea consumption of 2-3 cups daily is associated with a reduced risk of premature death, heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes; studies suggest potential benefits are due to its high polyphenol content.

No, the PRO Act Wouldn’t “Kill” Freelancing

Brandon Magner Jacobin
Some freelancers have come out against the PRO Act, insisting that the pro-labor bill threatens their livelihoods. But they needn’t worry: the bill would transform labor relations for the better, it wouldn’t “kill” freelancing.

The PRO Act

Olivia Paschal Facing South
Would undo decades of Southern anti-union laws rooted in racism.

The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue

Hamilton Nolan In These Times
Illustration of a man in a suit yelling with a stop circle above his head.
The PRO Act will not pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.

G&Ts on the Veranda: An Homage to Franz Boas and a Better Anthropology

Francis Gooding London Review of Books
Boas was an outlier in a field that tolerated if not justified white racial superiority over the world’s “lesser” breeds, He and his intellectual successors— largely women-did what scholars and journalists need to do: listen, ask questions, observe.