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January 31, 2020

A non-binary person walked by

Gail Wronsky Pedestal Magazine

The southern California poet Gail Wronsky writes with pride (and pleasure and dignity) about her child who no longer passes as a binary daughter.

January 31, 2020

New York City Council Staffers Secure More than Enough Signatures to Unionize

By DANIELLE MUOIO Politico

Staffers at the New York City Council began a card campaign in late November, a key step in the process that involves collecting signatures to show support for forming a union. They now have more than enough support to be formally recognized.

January 31, 2020

Where We Stand With Coronavirus

Ian Christopher Davis The Conversation

Scientists have grown the coronavirus in the lab for the first time. This is good news, and will advance the search for a vaccine. Meanwhile, what should you do to stay safe?

January 31, 2020

Democracy Is in Crisis. Karl Marx Can Help.

Bruno Leipold Jacobin

Karl Marx is often thought of as a purely economic thinker. But the famed socialist was a committed democrat — and his writings offer potential remedies for democratizing our undemocratic political system.

January 31, 2020

The Centenary of Isaac Asimov, Dreamer and Explainer

David Leslie Nature

The indefatigably curious chemist and science-fiction icon championed rationality for the common good, explained science to the public and blazed new paths in science fiction in more than 500 books that he wrote or edited

January 31, 2020

Democracy Is Fragile. Civil Rights Activists Already Know That.

Reverend William Barber The Guardian

Mitch McConnell’s conduct of Trump’s Senate trial recalls the baleful history of southern racial injustice in the civil rights era

Reflecting on Kobe Bryant

January 31, 2020

What can we learn from a helicopter crash? We could know more than we do and we could use that knowledge to save lives.

The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer

January 31, 2020

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Check local listings on PBS.

The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park

January 31, 2020

Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed.

Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda

January 31, 2020

President Trump plans to expand his infamous travel ban with the intention of cracking down on so-called “birth tourism.”