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Mama Africa | Andrew Tosh

February 28, 2020

Originally written and performed by the late, great Peter Tosh. Featuring Peter's son, Andrew Tosh, with Donald Kinsey, Fully Fullwood and musicians from Africa to Jamaica to the USA.

The Case for Bernie Sanders

February 28, 2020

To understand Bernie's future, look at what he's already done

The Case for Elizabeth Warren

February 28, 2020

To fix the country's problems, you have to understand them

Trump’s Flailing Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

February 28, 2020

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump appointing Mike Pence to take charge of the response to the coronavirus outbreak and reassuring absolutely nobody.

February 28, 2020

Sidelining Scientists Can Only Make COVID-19 Worse

Michael Halpern Scientific American

We need to hear about the risks directly from the experts, not through the filter of politicians

February 28, 2020

The Fox-Trump Coronavirus Feedback Loop

Matt Gertz Media Matters for America

The hours of Fox coverage Trump watches each day shape his worldview -- and direct his often inchoate rage

February 28, 2020

Our View of Black History Has Radically Shifted in a Few Short Years

Salim Muwakkil In These Times

The case for reparations and The 1619 Project have focused attention on what makes African Americans distinct

February 28, 2020

Pandemic, Meet the Trump Personality Cult

Paul Krugman New York Times

The Trump team confirms all of our worst fears

February 28, 2020

Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize in a Big Step for Tech

Kate Conger and Noam Scheiber The New York Times

Hands holding a Kickstarter United button

Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so. “The tech sector represents a new frontier for union organizing,” Richard Lanigan, the union’s president, said in a statement.

February 28, 2020

Morir Soñando

Martín Espada Rattle

“This poem is an elegy for a dear friend and mentor, Luis Garden Acosta,” writes Martin Espada, whose “activism…changed his community in Brooklyn [and] the lives of untold thousands like me.”