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The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

Tara C. Smith Quanta Magazine
If you didn't get a flu shot, you are endangering more than just your own health. Calculations of herd immunity against common diseases don't make exceptions.

Sabotaging Apartheid

Marcus Barnett, Ronnie Kasrils Jacobin
Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country’s left.

Sabotaging Apartheid

Jacobin
An interview with Ronnie Kasrils Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa's struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country's left.

Who Owns a Tip? Trump May Shift it to Restaurant Owners

Aimee Picchi CBS
Tip theft and other forms of wage theft is already a serious problem, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. It estimated workers lost more than $50 billion a year in wage theft in 2014, or far more than the cost of robberies, burglaries and other property crimes.

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Behzad Molavi Rattle
Tuesday is Election Day: the Iranian poet Behzad Molavi reminds us what to do.