Before the Punk Rockers, There Were the Working-Class Teds

Max Décharné Convergence
British class society had a dress code: the rich could be flashy,workers were expected to wear a drab uniform. In the 1950s, England’s working-class Teddy Boys and Girls boldly donned pompadours and velvet, giving birth to modern British subculture

How Movements Survive

Zach D. Roberts The Progressive
In her new book, Molly Crabapple shares the history of the Jewish Bund.

Burning

Gene Grabiner
Poet Gene Grabiner reminds us that even in the intimacy of the family one encounters intimations of past horror.

Humans May Be Far Older Than We Thought

Million-year-old artefacts offer a tantilising hint that Homo sapiens may be much older than previously thought. We may be looking in the wrong time and place to find Ancestor X.

Project Hail Mary | Movie

A science teacher (Ryan Gosling) turned astronaut is on a last-chance mission to save Earth from a solar-eating microbe and must rely on science, wit, and an unexpected alien ally to survive and succeed. In theaters today.
 

Bernie vs. Claude

Bernie speaks to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
 

Fossil Capitalism and the Strait of Hormuz

Sahasranshu Dash Foreign Policy in Focus
The global energy system was not built around oil simply because it was cheap. It concentrated economic and political power in specific chokepoints that enabled forms of state power premised on managing, rather than dispersing, these flows.