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Counting the Negro League Records Is About More Than Numbers

Dave Zirin The Nation
One player in particular is laying waste to the Major League record book: Josh Gibson. The debut of Robinson was also the first step toward MLB’s destruction of the Negro Leagues, strip-mined for talent. Teams were left without their main attractions

How To Kill Children Under Siege Legally

Alex Lo South China Morning Post
Some of the most respected publications in Britain and America have resorted to obscure legal grammar such as the use of commas to justify killing children ‘legally’ in Palestine.

Ladders Last a Long Time

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite London Review of Books
A collection of essays by Raphael Samuel, the late historian who was one of the intellectual founders of the New Left in the United Kingdom.

A Chilling Effect of Louisiana’s Abortion Law

Lora Kelley The Atlantic
Louisiana just became the first state to reclassify abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances. The law may signal a new strategy to curb reproductive-health-care access in post-Roe America.