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This 13th centure cookbook of Syrian recipes shows us the opulent upper limits of the cuisine from those who cooked and ate it—chefs developing recipes, explorers discovering ingredients, the wealthy elite who demanded luxury and ingenuity.

Sexual health is a lifetime responsibility, and we need to equip young people with the tools they need.

Many progressives who claim to oppose Islamophobia actually uphold the security state’s framing of key issues, keeping its oppressive framework in place.

Currently, an estimated 75 Palestinian children from East Jerusalem are being held in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

In the infancy of the Trump presidency, a new community defense network is espousing anti-racist and anti-capitalist politics to build coalitions in cities, small towns, and rural areas across America. Redneck Revolt recruits predominantly poor and working class white people away from reactionary politics. The organization advances an analysis of their class condition and white supremacy’s role in upholding the wealth and privilege of a small, white elite.

Glass-Steagall or Another Economic Meltdown?

The origin of the domestic cat, Felis catus, is radically different from the origin stories of our other domestic animals. All of them are deliberate human creations. Cats appear to have domesticated themselves.

Disabled people playing dead on McConnell’s floor summed it all up brilliantly. They are showing exactly what will happen if he gets what he wants—and exactly who is to blame.

How many more outrageously compensated executives will retire off into lush sunsets, the Jeff Immelt story virtually begs us to ask, before we start yanking that lever?

Lesson No. 1: Don’t trust bank stress-test results.