MAGA (a Parody of 'My Girl')

“My Girl” words and music copyright © 1964 by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White. Parody lyrics copyright © 2021 by Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby.

Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins

An evolutionary biochemist at University College London explores the mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis illuminates the outsized role that energy may have played in shaping evolution.

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The Photographs of the Border

Aviva Chomsky The Nation
In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories. Corporations know no borders, while they rely on the US-Mexico border to keep wages low...

“Live in Fragments No Longer”

Zephyr Teachout, interviewed by Daniel Drake The New York Review of Books
“Surveillance makes worker coordination and solidarity harder, and big data makes capital coordination easier, so the need for both pro-labor and antitrust laws is greater than ever before.”

In Wealthy City, a Marxist Mayor Wins Over Voters

Denise Hruby The New York Times
Yes, this Communist politician in Graz, Austria, wants to redistribute wealth, but a focus on housing, her own modest lifestyle and a hard childhood have helped her popularity.

The Nobodies Take Office in Colombia: An In-Depth Analysis

Alina Duarte Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Pacto Histórico: a one-of-a kind alliance. It was a unique coalition, not a mere alliance among political parties, but also including social movements from a broad range of the ideological spectrum. And the "Nobodies" won. Here's how

Liz Cheney’s Loss Is a Defeat for Conservatism

Timothy Noah The New Republic
In sending incumbent Liz Cheney to her premature retirement in Tuesday’s primary, Wyoming struck a blow against conservatism. Her defeat is the latest demonstration that Trumpism now eclipses conservatism as the reigning faith of the Republican party