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Fox News Finally Abandons Trump

November 25, 2022

Trump's predictable 2024 announcement to run for president immediately backfires on him.

The Global Movement To Restore Nature's Biodiversity

November 25, 2022

The inside story of headline-making research on maintaining biodiversity, the key to life on Earth

The Torch | The Story of Buddy Guy

November 25, 2022

Guitar icon Buddy Guy reflects on his legacy and passes along the blues lessons he received from legends Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf to a phenom of the next generation

Qatar World Cup | John Oliver

November 25, 2022

The Qatar World Cup, human rights violations in the host country, and what perfection really means to David Beckham

November 25, 2022

Deep Geothermal — One Renewable Energy Source To Rule Them All?

Steve Hanley CleanTechnica

Deep geothermal technology can harness the heat stored beneath the Earth’s crust to make abundant zero emissions energy.

November 25, 2022

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times

What if lifetime tenure, rather than raising the barriers to corruption, makes it easier to influence the court by giving interested parties the time and space to operate in an era when wealth has an almost unbreakable grip on our politics?

November 25, 2022

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With

Nick Engelfried Waging Nonviolence

Even more important than the decisions of the UN climate talks are the next steps of a youth-led movement strengthened by two decades of transformative action

November 25, 2022

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

While many observers have breathed a sigh of relief over the rout of extreme election deniers endorsed by Trump, and his seemingly deflated campaign launch, the revered sociologist Frances Fox Piven has a more sombre analysis

Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History of the United States

November 25, 2022

Highlights from a production of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn, Afre Woodard, Jeff Zinn.

November 25, 2022

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