Alaska Daily 2023 Trailer

Alaska Daily examines what drives local reporters to dig into stories, beginning with the unsolved cases of missing Indigenous women

How Did Life Begin? One Key Ingredient Is Coming Into View

Amber Dance Nature
The birth of this molecule that links amino acids into chains would have created a fundamental shift in the the prebiotic world, providing a key ingredient to all life as we know it. Scientists are learning to build it.

Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

Dan Royles African American Intellectual History Society
Thinking about the role that historical testimony played in getting some measure of justice for the Rosewood survivors, it’s hard not to also think about the way that lawmakers in Florida are trying to skew the teaching of history.

Why Veterans in Labor Should Not Be Ignored

Steve Early Working-Class Perspectives
Largely ignored is the positive role veterans from working-class backgrounds have played in key labor and political struggles since the mid-20th century.

My California

Beau Beausoleil 03
Back in the Sixties, a young Black activist Rap Brown said “violence is as American as cherry pie” and see now how much has not changed.

How Police Culture Has Reshaped America

Cristina Beltrán The New York Times
America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, border control and mass incarceration. This reshaping is not one-dimensional...