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February 1, 2020

US Navy’s Deployment of New “Low-Yield” Nuclear Warhead a Dangerous Step

Julian Borger The Guardian

Last December the US Navy deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident submarine warhead. Critics of the warhead say it accelerates a drift towards thinking of nuclear weapons as a means to fight and win wars, rather than as a deterrent of last resort.

February 1, 2020

The Long Arm of the Law: On the Rise of the Global “Good Cop”

Lyle Jeremy Rubin The Baffler

Protesters march against police brutality in Oakland, California.

Badges Without Borders is a book about America’s post-WWII “global transit of police ideas and personnel.” Its critical framework is indebted to a rich legacy of thought centering on the racist underbelly of the international economic order.

January 31, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | January 31, 2020

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The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders. Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda. The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park. The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer. Reflecting on Kobe Bryant.

The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders

January 31, 2020

Real change is all around us. Every conversation, protestor, canvasser, donation fuels this movement.

Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda

January 31, 2020

President Trump plans to expand his infamous travel ban with the intention of cracking down on so-called “birth tourism.”

The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park

January 31, 2020

Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed.

The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer

January 31, 2020

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Check local listings on PBS.

Reflecting on Kobe Bryant

January 31, 2020

What can we learn from a helicopter crash? We could know more than we do and we could use that knowledge to save lives.

January 31, 2020

Democracy Is Fragile. Civil Rights Activists Already Know That.

Reverend William Barber The Guardian

Mitch McConnell’s conduct of Trump’s Senate trial recalls the baleful history of southern racial injustice in the civil rights era

January 31, 2020

The Centenary of Isaac Asimov, Dreamer and Explainer

David Leslie Nature

The indefatigably curious chemist and science-fiction icon championed rationality for the common good, explained science to the public and blazed new paths in science fiction in more than 500 books that he wrote or edited