What Students Are Taught About Slavery
Alternet
A new report finds both educators and pupils are woefully misinformed.
Amazon Patents Wristband that Tracks Warehouse Workers' Movements
The Guardian
Bracelet, which can vibrate to point an employee’s hand in the right direction, would further increase surveillance of work environment
Examining "Ten Myths about Israel" by Ilan Pappe
Mondoweiss
This review of the book “Ten Myths About Israel’ by Ilan Pappe will appear in the Winter 2018 ISSUES, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism. The book is published by Verso.
Trump Officials Considered “Reversing” Undocumented Teen’s Abortion
The Guardian
The anti-abortion activist appointed by Donald Trump to head the US agency that detains undocumented immigrant children weighed using a highly contentious untested technique to stop a teenager from completing an abortion that was already in process.
Exilium
Spoon River Poetry Review
Inspired by a photography exhibition, the poet Ewa Chrusciel adapts the testimony of refugees describing what they took with them into exile.
Friday Nite Videos | Feb 2, 2018
Portside
Confounds the Science - (Parody of) Sound of Silence. Daniel Ellsberg Says We've Escaped Self-Annihilation by Luck. As You Are | Amandla Stenberg Movie. Humiliating: Watch Nunes Demolish Himself On Surveillance. 5 Ways Trump Has Betrayed His Voters.
Confounds the Science - (Parody of) Sound of Silence
"It's time for him to tweet again / But first he'll have to check in with Fox News / That's how things get planted in his brain / Where they remain"
Daniel Ellsberg Says We've Escaped Self-Annihilation by Luck
The military analyst turned whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers looks at the existential threat of America’s nuclear capacities in his new memoir, “The Doomsday Machine.”
As You Are | Amandla Stenberg Movie
A risk-taking movie that traces the friendship of three teenagers through memories prompted by a police investigation.
Humiliating: Watch Nunes Demolish Himself On Surveillance
In a “Beat” special report Ari Melber breaks down Republican hypocrisy on the controversial GOP memo.
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