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Sunday Science: Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle

Erin Malsbury University California Santa Cruz
After years of work, an international team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that may have only occurred three times before in the last billion years. They’ve observed two lifeforms merging into one organism.

Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community

Alan Wagman CounterPunch
We must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community that lives its traditions, its values, and – if so inclined – its spiritual life with vitality and integrity.

How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists

David Duhalde The Forge
DSA's youth section used lessons from Mao and contemporary labor to build a winning strategy: When a strategy and its tactics cease producing desired results, you need to reassess. Sometimes that means going beyond your comfort zone to find success.

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
To head off a union drive, Volkswagen boosted wages 11 percent to match the immediate raise UAW members received at Ford.

Green Groups Slam RFK Jr.

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
"With so much at stake, we stand united in denouncing RFK Jr.'s false environmentalist claims."

Antitax Nation

David Cay Johnston The American Prospect
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

Si, Se Puede (It Can Be Done)

Philip Kolin
Marking the anniversary of his death (April 23, 1993), Cesar Chavez continues to inspire support for immigrant farm workers’ rights around the country.

Dead Last (With an Emphasis on Dead!)

Juan Cole TomDispatch
Despite the fact that the Middle East has experienced hellish heat waves and epic floods, Middle Eastern regimes get failing grades on climate action