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LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas

Katya Schwenk Jacobin
In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars

Myrna Perez Jacobin
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists