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Living the Life of an Organizer

Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Stansbury Forum
The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject.

Plant-Based Meat? Really?

Jillian D'Onfro Business Insider
Can plant-based burgers really replace the real thing, especially for someone who enjoys meat? Here's what Ione author found in serious taste tests.

A Debate Over the Physics of Time

Dan Falk Quanta
According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to pass. Yet a number of physicists hope to replace this “block universe” with a physical theory of time.

Remembering a Dutch Partisan

Pepijn Brandon Jacobin
Truus Menger-Oversteegen was part of a generation that sacrificed everything to fight Nazism and build a better world.

How Racial Bias Affects The Quality Of Black Students’ Education

Casey Quinlan Think Progress
Although it has been more than 60 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision establishing that separate schools for white students and black students are not equal, schools in the U.S. remain very economically and racially segregated.

Arizona's Blue Horizons

Nathalie Baptiste The American Prospect
With increasing Latino activism, once-Republican Arizona is becoming contested terrain, though registration still lags. Will this be the year?

Teachers Arrested Protesting Police Brutality in the Twin Cities

Samantha Winslow Labor Notes
With 3,000 teachers gathered in Minneapolis for the American Federation of Teachers convention, the two Twin Cities teachers unions led a march to protest the recent police killing of an African American man, Philando Castile, at a traffic stop. Educators want to link their struggle for resources for public schools with the wider need for public investment in neighborhoods and cities, particularly for communities of color.