Juristac Planning Commission Public Comment
A local land dispute between indigenous Native Americans and a sand and gravel business prompts California poet Amy Meier to plead for environmental justice.
TWO STATES,TWO VISIONS for the FUTURE of LABOR
Vox
“RIGHT-TO-WORK” IS ON the BALLOT.
How Serious Is the Authoritarian Threat in the US? What Can We Do About It?
Portside
The answer, I believe, is easy – very serious indeed. We as a left must build a politics of broad, working-class solidarity to defeat fascism either now or farther down the road than we can currently envision.
Normal People in Today’s Russia
Russian Dissent
Modern Russian propaganda, much like the modern Russian state, continues to parasitize off of the Soviet Union. Today, it is difficult for political convictions to be born: there is no habit of conscious resistance to the authorities.
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Give Blue Checks Only to Verified Conspiracy Theorists
The New Yorker
“We will be vetting conspiracy theorists to insure that they have an established track record... We want to make a clear distinction between the Dinesh D’Souzas of the world and some rookie crackpot hoping to become a major-league crackpot.”
The Origins of Human Society Are More Complex Than We Thought
The Conversation
What kind of society did people live in for most of our history? There is strong evidence that humans lived in nomadic egalitarian bands. This does not mean that humans are naturally egalitarian. Like us, our ancestors faced complex politics.
Why This Instrument Explains Black American Folk Music
Jake Blount walks us through the banjo's history — from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry — to explain how Black folk music has evolved.
Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic
We hear from people struggling with long Covid and what scientists have learned about the condition — or conditions — so far about long Covid’s diverse effects on the body.
Why Self-Driving Cars Have Stalled | It's Complicated
Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be perpetually just around the corner. It is a promise that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has made almost every year since 2013.
Till | Movie
The never-before-told story of Mamie Till Mobley’s quest for justice for her son, Emmett. In theaters now.
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