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Exploring Timelapse in Google Earth

Climate crisis? Urbanization? Desertification? See humanity’s impact on the Earth through a global time-lapse video of the planet since 1984.

'Exterminate All the Brutes,' Reviewed

Richard Brody The New Yorker
Raoul Peck’s ('I Am Not Your Negro') four-hour documentary on HBO Max reveals the racist underpinnings of American national mythology and European society.

An Improver

Lesbia Harford The Guardian
There’s a strong feminist working-class voice in the poetry of Australian writer Lesbia Harford 1891-1927.

Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets

Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute
How many Black people have to be killed by police before politicians realize that expensive reforms don’t work? Like so many Black Americans, Wright justifiably feared police interactions. The Black fear of police is grounded in provable police bias.

Prelude to Tax Day

H Patricia Hynes Portside
On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions.