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These Nobel Winners Laid the Basis of Modern Climate Science

David Randall The Conversation
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to pioneers in climate modeling. Their names are not known to the general public, but their work made predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible.

America Is in the Midst of a Dramatic Labor Resurgence

Faiz Shakir The New Republic
As corporations fail to meet worker demands, they are increasingly encountering a labor force that isn’t going to take it. They are striking; they are picketing; they are demanding fair contracts. They are forming new unions. It's a beautiful thing.

$3.5T Isn't That Expensive. It's a Drop in the Bucket.

Ben Davis The Guardian
Biden's Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill amounts to only 1.5 percent of US gross domestic product. If it were to pass as is, the US social support system would still be small by world standards.

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The Political Creativity of Sylvia Pankhurst

Martha Sonnenberg New Politics
A classic text’s reissue charts a key British feminist rebel’s life and work from her organizing immigrant and working women in London’s East End and building the emerging British labor movement to her revolutionary politics and her anti-fascism.

What’s Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?

Michelle Goldberg New York Times
People sometimes describe the Arizona senator as a centrist, that seems the wrong term for someone who’s working to derail some of the most broadly popular parts of Biden’s agenda, corporate tax increases and reforms to lower prescription drug prices

Hope for Labor at the End of History

Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman Dissent Magazine
Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.