“Our Country is Full”
New Verse News
Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin takes the president at his word(s) and turns the table(s).
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger
Jacobin
Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let's celebrate him today.
Remaking 9 to 5? What Today’s Working Women Want to See
The American Prospect
After viewing the 1980 film, a cross section of women recognized the persistent sexism—but noted a host of newer problems a remake would have to address
Some of Us Are Born This Way: Female Athletes and Testosterone Limits
The Cut
A top sports court has ruled that Caster Semenya would have to take hormone suppressants in order to “ensure fair competition in women’s sports”
Democrats: Don’t Fall Into the ‘Electability’ Trap
Crooked
We need to step back and break down what people mean when they say someone is not “electable,” and explain why their assumptions are unfounded
Ady Barkan Testifies on Medicare for All
"Never before have I given a speech without my natural voice. Never before have I had to rely on a synthetic voice to lay out my arguments, convey my most passionately held beliefs, tell the details of my personal story."
How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
This video explains Shor’s Algorithm, a way to efficiently factor large pseudoprime integers into their prime factors using a quantum computer. Bottom line: if quantum computers scale up, computer security that depends on the difficulty of factoring will be destroyed.
Warren After Reading Mueller Report: Time To Open Impeachment Proceedings
Elizabeth Warren joins Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about her call for impeaching President Trump and how her prolific policy proposals are being received in the 2020 Democratic primary.
For Pete at 100 | This Land Is Your Land
Studs Terkel does the introduction to the beloved Woody Guthrie song, sung by Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman and Arlo Guthrie in this 1976 broadcast from PBS studio in Chicago. Full appreciation of the radical life of Pete Seeger here.
William Barr's Master Class on Hair Splitting
Stephen attempts to capture the substance, nature, and context of William Barr's incredibly hard-to-watch testimony
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