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June 12, 2021

Fifty Years Later, Pentagon Papers Still Speak Loudly About War and Government Untruths

David M. Shribman The Boston Globe

A half-century later, the publication of the Pentagon Papers has both less and greater significance than it did on June 13, 1971.

June 11, 2021

Poem with an Ear Pressed to the Ground

Kindra McDonald Rattle

“So much of this last year has been about breath and breathing,” writes the poet Kindra McDonald, referring to respirators and the words “I can’t breathe.”

June 11, 2021

Trump-inspired Death Threats are Terrorizing Election Workers

Linda So Reuters

Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts, interviews and documents reveal. The campaign of fear, sparked by Trump's voter-fraud falsehoods, threatens the U.S. electoral system.

Jordan Klepper Solves Guns - Full Episode

June 11, 2021

From the nation's capital to the woods of Georgia and beyond, Jordan Klepper talks with lawmakers, militia members and more to solve America's gun crisis once and for all. #JordanKlepper #JordanKlepperSolvesGuns #GunViolenceAwarenessDay

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

June 11, 2021

Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false. But it's a lot better than denying published science.

“Takeover”: New Doc Chronicles Historic 1970 Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

June 11, 2021

“Takeover” follows the 12 historic hours on July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party took over the rundown Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx in New York City.

Mdou Moctar | Chismiten

June 11, 2021

"Afrique Victime" is the title track from Mdou Moctar's new album out on Matador Records, May 21,2021. Order it here: http://mdou.ffm.to/afriquevictime

How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City

June 11, 2021

Seed bombs. The "tree lady of Brooklyn." The roots of urban gardening. The secret history of the radical act of greening cities.

June 11, 2021

The Fog of History Wars

David W. Blight The New Yorker

History is politics by other means, and we who care about it have to fight this war better and more strategically ourselves. We need history that can get us marching but also render us awed by how much there is to learn.

June 11, 2021

The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump

Boston Globe Editors The Boston Globe

Trump’s presidency made clear that our institutions are currently incapable of holding presidents accountable for breaking the law. Unless he faces consequences, the message to future corrupt leaders is that they will not face consequences either.