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Spirulina Spirals

Leah Borts-Kuperman Ambrook Research
The health supplement spirulina is now a mainstream food dye but critics are pointing to contamination concerns. The FDA, based on a petition from industry, ruled that spirulina “certification was not necessary for the protection of public health.”

Labor Can’t Remain Shackled to the Democrats

Neal Meyer Jacobin
In much of the US, Democrats’ reputation is utterly toxic to working-class voters. Running independent candidates may be the way forward for labor and the Left in many regions — potentially planting the seeds of a new party.

Empires of Flow Control

Nicholas Mulder The New York Review of Books
The modern idea of the freedom of the seas is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.

Archiving Joy

Emma Janssen The American Prospect
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.

Workers Are Demanding a Share of Samsung’s AI Windfall

Kap Seol Jacobin
A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.