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September 7, 2024

Houston’s Plastic Waste

James Bruggers Inside Climate News

Houston seeks to be a national model for plastic recycling. But a program that started in 2022 hasn’t yet found its footing.

September 6, 2024

Sermon on the Mount 2024

Susan Cossette

As Minnesota poet Susan Cossette reminds us, watch out for prophets!

September 6, 2024

U.S. Steel Threatens To Go Rogue

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect

Sparks shooting up from a work table towards a worker with face protection.

Until yesterday, U.S. steelworkers hadn’t experienced an attack as sweeping as that of 1892.

September 6, 2024

Gus Walz Opens the Door to Appreciating Human Diversity

Sneha Kohli Mathur The Conversation

Gus Walz’s unbridled emotion on the DNC stage opens the door to more understanding of neurodiversity

September 6, 2024

Why Fascists Hate Universities

Jason Stanley The Guardian

Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent. Attacks on universities are the canary in the coalmine of fascism.

September 6, 2024

Are You Ready for Some (Private Equity) Football!

Sam Pizzigati Inequality

The greediest owners in pro sports are now welcoming in the greed kings of high finance

September 6, 2024

To Sacrifice or Free the Hostages? Israeli Protesters Have Chosen a Side

Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine

The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s demonstrations were for an end to the war.