The New Jim Crow

Joyce Vance Civil Discourse
As you look at Alabama and other Southern states reintroducing racist gerrymanders, don’t think it can’t happen anywhere else. Trump isn’t building a ballroom for the next guy. It’s up to us to hold the line.

How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement

Mark Engler and Matthew Miles Goodrich Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.

Starmer Crashes While Socialist Sánchez Soars

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?

The Next Generation of Gene Editing | SciShow

MIT biochemist Feng Zhang is studying a set of microbial genes called TIGR. And they may be the key to developing the revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR's successor.

Leonard Cohen's Secret Chord from 'Hallelujah'

The first verse of Hallelujah mentions a 'secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord'. Many people have asked... what WAS that chord? I think I might have the answer.

Apocalypse Now

Sally Mansfield Abbott
Poet Sally Mansfield Abbott finds that "doomscrolling" offers exactly what its name implies.