Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye

Daniel Clery Science
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

The Italian Labor and Citizenship Referenda June 8–9

Salvo Leonardi and Lepoldo Tartaglia The Stansbury Forum
Despite the defeat of pro-worker referenda, bringing workers’ rights and dignity back to the top of the list in the public discourse, in a time saddened by wars and epochal challenges, can be considered a positive.

A Diaspora at a Crossroads

Ankur Singh The Progressive
At two events in the suburbs of Chicago this spring, members of the Indian diaspora responded to the rise of ethnonationalism in very different ways.

Nuclear Options

Tariq Ali Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Netanyahu’s boast that he will bring about regime change has produced the opposite effect. Hijabless women have been demonstrating in the streets, chanting ‘Get an atom bomb’. The country that urgently needs regime change is Israel. 

Jerusalem

William Blake
An oldy but a goldy. Poet, philosopher, artist and mystic, William Blake offers us a vision of the struggle to build a peaceful and just society, an early skirmisher in the fight against capitalism. Check out those 'dark Satanic Mills.'

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Movie

Sundance award-winning documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons

Trump Morphs into Bush 2.0

Seth takes a closer look at Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson grilling each other in a very heated discussion about the merits of U.S. military intervention in Iran.