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We Uncovered the Most Infamous Secret Society

February 27, 2026

They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. They meet at private camp Bohemian Grove. The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

Welcome the Stranger | Zohran Mamdani

February 27, 2026

Mayor Mamdani's speech at the NYC Interfaith Breakfast | Feb 6, 2026. This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic

February 27, 2026

Just how widely should weight loss drugs be prescribed? What is the health tradeoff between these medications and obesity?

The Story of Capital | David Harvey

February 27, 2026

Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work. Now in The Story of Capital his work becomes accessible to the general reader.

February 27, 2026

St. John’s University Says It No Longer Recognizes Faculty Unions After 56 Years

Brian Fraga National Catholic Reporter

Photo of the entrance gate of St John's University

This union-busting "religious exemption" move was abruptly announced on the faculty’s 234th day of working without a contract, following the administration’s prolonged stalling of contract negotiations and hiring of the notorious union-busting firm.

February 27, 2026

Revolutionary Letter #14

Diane di Prima

Nearly 60 years ago poet Diane di Prima offered witness to the stealth, courage and discipline required to resist a tyrannical government, lessons once again appropriate for activists and ordinary citizens.

February 26, 2026

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March

Marjorie Cohn Truthout

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.

February 26, 2026

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — a Call for War From the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Informed Comment

All evidence points to the US determination to release the full might of its military prowess on unseating the Islamic Republic. In the absence of massive ground invasion this goal is only achievable by total annihilation of the entire infrastructure

February 26, 2026

ICE Holds People in Disgusting Conditions. Now It’s Turning Warehouses Into Camps

Moira Donegan The Guardian

Massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But Trump's ICE is aiming to convert them into detention camps

February 26, 2026

Bruce’s ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ Is the Song That Needed To Be Written for This Moment

Steve Wishnia WORK-BITES

Bruce Springsteen wrote “The Streets of Minneapolis” on Saturday, January 24, the day the videos of Alex Pretti being thrown to the ground and shot in the back by federal ethnic-cleansing goons zoomed around the globe.