Why Humanity Will Never Leave the Solar System

The deeper we look, the more the universe reveals a hidden barrier between our Solar System and everything else. There are many reasons why the dream of space travel might stay just a dream.

Lawsuit Takes Aim at Deal Granting Trump Sweeping Tax Protections

Alan Feuer and Andrew Duehren The New York Times
Photo of the façade of the IRS building
The union representing IRS workers asked a judge to stop the Trump administration from granting Trump extraordinary tax protections, saying the provision was illegal. The request was the first time anyone had used the courts to kill the plan.

Appalachia

Peter Neil Carroll
If you follow the speaker’s directions, you’ll be as lost as he is. Poet Peter Neil Carroll wonders what’s worth finding in this place that most Americans have forgotten.

El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November. El-Sayed's overriding message has to be that his election will help end Trump’s disastrous control of the economy. Halley Stevens concession and endorsement; Mallory McMorrow endorsement.

New York’s Socialist Victories Can’t Be So Easily Dismissed

Michael Kinnucan Jacobin
Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.

Class War in Sugartown

Joe Allen CounterPunch
The C&H Sugar strike was shaping up to be the most politically significant strike in the country. If the ILWU returns to the picket line in sixty days, they deserve wide support.