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Iran: The Treason That Changed America’s Energy Future

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
How Reagan’s secret betrayal of America during the Iran hostage crisis helped him win the presidency, killed Carter’s clean-energy revolution, and helped create today’s crisis in the Strait of Hormuz…

The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

Julia Curl Hyperallergic
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.

Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s

Clarence Lusane TomDispatch
Epstein’s eugenicist views are in line with the longstanding genetic determinism of Trump. There is no bigger racist science believer than the current occupant in the White House.

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

Apoorva Mandavilli The New York Times
Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government had not based its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and revising the childhood immunization schedule.

When the Pencil Was the Sword

Lily Sanchez Jacobin
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.