Cesar Falls
The American Prospect
With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses.
Fossil Capitalism and the Strait of Hormuz
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.
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.
Rebecca Traister - “Angry Girls Will Get Us Through” | The Daily Show
Rebecca Traister talks to Jordan Klepper about her latest book. “At the beginning of almost every major social movement that has reshaped this country… there were angry women and girls.” #DailyShow #RebeccaTraister #Anger
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.
This Mechanic Could Win the Most Important Senate Race in America
52% of Americans are working class, compared to just 2% of people in Congress. This leader of a successful strike at Kellogg's Omaha plant is running for Senate to represent Nebraska’s working class.
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.
Far From Home, Millions of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Are Trapped by War
NPR
In 2019, the International Labor Organization estimates there are more than 24 million migrant workers across the Gulf region alone — typically employed in low-wage jobs in construction, domestic housework, seafaring and caregiving.
Burning
Poet Gene Grabiner reminds us that even in the intimacy of the family one encounters intimations of past horror.
Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois
The American Prospect
Only two of four AIPAC-backed Democratic House candidates won, despite tens of millions in spending. An absurd $92 million was spent on four open-seat House races and an open Senate race, a corruption of democracy that is relatively unprecedented
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