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Sunday Science: My Errant Uterus

Monica J. Casper Sapiens.org
In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

Robin D. G. Kelley Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

It Wasn’t Just Flawed Forecasts, Dishonesty Has Also Hurt Economists

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
Economists have seriously failed the public in important areas over the last three decades. And these failures played a role in fostering the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades. People have a right to be angry.

For Reality

Bill McKibben The Crucial Years
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

A Public Model for Home Insurance

Moira Birss, MacKenzie Marcelin Dissent Magazine
We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

Nurses and Doctors Are on Strike at Eight Oregon Hospitals

Kari Thompson Labor Notes
5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat

Jason Linkins The New Republic
Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison.

The TikTok Ban Won’t Help

Siddharth Suhas Shanbhag Jacobin
The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.

Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare Labor Notes
To keep up the offensive fight, defense may be necessary. Organized workers can pressure employers to deny entry to ICE agents who arrive without an arrest or search warrant—or at least restrict the search area only to what is listed in the document.