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December 28, 2018

Mueller Closes In: What Will the Trump-Russia Inquiry Deliver in 2019?

Tom McCarthy The Guardian

The special counsel investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion is notoriously leak-proof but it could soon touch Trump directly or members of his family

December 28, 2018

7 Bad Science and Health Ideas That Should Die With 2018

Julia Belluz, Brian Resnick, and Umair Irfan Vox

Immigrants aren’t a disease risk. Neanderthals weren’t necessarily savages. Juul isn’t cool.

December 28, 2018

The Green New Deal Promises Peace and Progress. Will Nuclear Advocates Undermine It?

Harvey Wasserman The Progressive

The environmental policy centerpiece of the incoming Democratic House of Representatives has ignited tremendous grassroots enthusiasm.

2018 Lesson: 'Nothing Matters' Is Bogus

December 28, 2018

In the Trump era, everyone from comedians to pundits have claimed that “nothing matters”. MSNBC anchor Ari Melber runs through an exhaustive list of times when Trump has been defeated or stopped by facts and reporting. “In a democracy, things matter when we make them matter.”

'Weird Al' Yankovic - Party In The CIA

December 28, 2018

Parody of "Party In The U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus

Springsteen on Broadway

December 28, 2018

The critically acclaimed, three times extended, Broadway phenomenon makes its global debut on Netflix.

Vice | Movie

December 28, 2018

The official Vice trailer about our most notorious vice president, starring Christian Bale. Full review here.

Tumblr CEO: No More Porn

December 28, 2018

Gee, it's more difficult than they thought.

December 28, 2018

How does it end?

Marge Piercy Monthly Review

The award-winning poet Marge Piercy decries America’s refugee policies that would make an earlier poet, Emma Lazarus, weep.

December 27, 2018

Could a Self-governed Workers’ Movement Boost Croatia’s Dying Shipbuilding Industry?

Jelena Prtorić Equal Times

Shipbuilding was a key symbol of the working-classes in Yugoslavia's early socialist years. But during the transition to a market economy in the 1990s shipyards began to close. Today, workers are directly organizing to save the industry.