Interrupting the Flights of Angels
As the San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil explains, “The tidal wave of commercialized mourning for the Queen prompted this poem to write itself.”
Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized.
The Nation
Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.
Lawmakers Call for Federal Probe of DeSantis Over ‘Cruel’ Migrant Stunt
Common Dreams
Massachusetts lawmakers are urging the Treasury Department to investigate Florida governor DeSantis for "effectively using Covid-19 relief to score political points by exploiting vulnerable immigrants."
The Coup in Chile: What Did Nixon Know and When Did He Know It?
National Security Archive
Forty nine years after Pinochet’s putsch, Presidential and CIA documents remain secret. The National Security Archive calls for full disclosure of the covert history of U.S. involvement as the countdown to the 50th anniversary of the military coup begins
Aliens, SETI, and the Legacy of Frank Drake: 1930–2022
Big Think
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Black Historians Critique ‘Objective History’
The New Republic
Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted racist narratives and suppressed Black history.
How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?
Breaking the Vote Series Trailer
VICE’s new show tracking the growing assault on voting rights, and efforts to undermine democracy in America.
How Waves Could Power a Clean Energy Future
Harnessing ocean waves for grid-scale electricity production would be a major boon to the clean energy industry. Now, an influx of federal funding is helping U.S. companies test wave energy technologies, giving hope that wave power will see massive growth over the next few decades.
Ron DeSantis' Migrant Stunt | Trevor Noah
Patagonia's founder donates his company to fight climate change, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sends migrants to Martha's Vineyard, racists lash out at "The Little Mermaid."
Spread the word