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Original Sin and the Road to Redemption

Paul Garver Chartist
For many Democratic operatives, the victory of the Left in the Democratic Party, now represented by Sanders, the Squad, and Mamdani, would be a catastrophic blow, at least as obnoxious as MAGA and Project 2025. 

July 4th in the Face of Fascism

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Bishop William J. Barber, II Our Moral Moment
This 4th of July, may we all gather with Fannie Lou Hamer and the moral fusion family closest to us – both the living and the dead – to recommit ourselves to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

A Tribunal in Waiting That Cannot Touch Vladimir Putin — for Now

Gleb Bogush The Insider
The tribunal will focus on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, but Putin is immune while in office. Even with its limitations, it is a significant step towards the first court to prosecute the crime of aggression since Nuremberg and Tokyo.

The Radical Past and Future of Christian Zionism

Sarah Jones New York Magazine
Christian Zionism is again salient as Donald Trump surrounds himself with Evangelicals who profess the ideology and he pays lip service to it, as he does to other popular Evangelical convictions. Many Christian Zionists believe end-times are nigh.

It’s Settled: How Adult Brains Make New Neurons

Nora Bradford Scientific American
Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from. These new findings settle a major dispute that neuroscientists have been arguing about for more than 60 years.

Friday Nite Videos | July 4, 2025

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