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Maria Ressa, Dave Chappelle, the strike that inspired Squid Game, and recommended media stocks

A Maryland couple allegedly used the sticky sandwiches and chewing gum to deliver intel about nuclear subs to a foreign government.

The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide.

Only when China and the United States elevate the threat of climate change above their geopolitical rivalry will it be possible to avert disaster.

When China and the United States cooperate, the two countries and the world will benefit; when China and the United States are in confrontation, the two countries and the world will suffer, Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping to Pres. Joe Biden, Sept. 10, 2021

“The unprecedented and unjustified seizure of Professor Wilson’s entire collection of books, letters, computers, research and lectures, openly violated state law, CUNY’s own policies and the US Constitution”

Some cities are restoring police budgets that had been cut in response to last year’s uprisings, but that doesn’t mean the ‘defund the police’ movement hasn’t fueled innovation across the U.S.

How can Paulo Freire, who would have turned 100 this year, help us think the limits that Occupy encountered ten years ago?

Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.

Villeneuve’s hugely anticipated, pandemic-delayed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune is an environmental fable, a parable of the oil economy, a critique of colonialism, a warning against putting your faith in charismatic leaders.