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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens

Ronan Farrow The New Yorker
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

Ed Yong The Atlantic
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.

What Movements Do to Law

Amna A. Akbar Sameer Ashar Jocelyn Simonson Boston Review
When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

Socialists Are Trying To Revive the American Labor Movement

Gabriel Winant and Teagan Harris Jacobin
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.

Why America Is Moving Left

Peter Beinart The Atlantic
Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation's statehouses - and could well win the presidency - but the liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning. The need to win the votes of Millennials and minorities, who lean left not just on cultural issues but on economic ones, will shape how whoever wins in the general election, and governs once in office.