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Feelings for Reasons | Baba Brinkman

July 12, 2019

A new rap video on the evolutionary origins of emotions and mental illness. Based on the recent book Good Reasons for Bad Feelings (check out this Patreon post on the topic).

Bernie Sanders Sits Down With Rachel Maddow

July 12, 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders talks with Rachel Maddow about the overwhelming audiences for his campaign events, the exhausting pace of the campaign, and spontaneous generation of as many as 200,000 grassroots volunteers nationwide helping spread the word

July 12, 2019

This Artist Painted the Black Radical Response to the George Washington Slaveholder Murals. Here’s Why He Stands Against Destroying Them

Ben Davis Artnet News

Dewey Crumpler was brought in, at the demand of Black and Latino student activists, to paint a "response" to George Washington murals at a public San Francisco high school. Crumpler explains why the original murals should not be destroyed.

July 12, 2019

Real Hedge-Fund Managers Have Some Thoughts on What Epstein Was Actually Doing

Michelle Celarier New York Magazine

Epstein's hedge fund was missing a key element of a typical thriving hedge fund: investors. If he wasn't really a multi-billion-dollar manager, there may have been something much more unsavory at the heart of his business model.

July 12, 2019

Acosta Resigned. The Caligula Administration Lives On.

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times

Even with Acosta gone, Epstein remains a living reminder of the depraved milieu from which the president sprang, and of the corruption and misogyny that continue to swirl around him.

July 12, 2019

Karl Marx Still Tells Us What to Fight For and How

Arnau Barquer Jacobin

The financial crash didn’t kill off neoliberalism — it actually embedded its logic ever deeper in our lives. Marxist geographer David Harvey says the only way to end this system for good is to change how we fight it.

The Problem With America's College Entrance Exam

July 12, 2019

Your Scholastic Aptitude Test score is hugely important. But what does it *really* measure?

July 12, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | July 12, 2019

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The Problem With America's College Entrance Exam. Bernie Sanders Sits Down With Rachel Maddow. Feelings for Reasons | Baba Brinkman. Mitch McConnell's Challenger Mimics Joe Manchin. Sheryl Crow - Everything Is Broken (Audio) ft. Jason Isbell.

July 11, 2019

‘It Puts You Into a Process That Hugely Favors the Employer’

Janine Jackson interview with Celine McNicholas FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

Forced arbitration strengthens corprorate power over individual workers while weakening workers collective rights.

July 11, 2019

Tidbits - July 11, 2019 -Reader Comments: Building Unity to Defeat Trump; Concentration Camps; History and Left contributions; Arnautoff Mural; Syriza Lessons; Ida B. Wells; Lights for Liberty demonstrations; Beyond NAFTA 2.0; more

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Reader Comments: Building Unity to Defeat Trump; Concentration Camps; Debating History and contributions from the Left; Arnautoff Mural; Syriza Lessons; Ida B. Wells; Lights for Liberty demonstrations; Beyond NAFTA 2.0; Resources; Announcements; more