Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?
The New Republic
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
Acts of Rebel Sanity
The Progressive
With the past half-century’s experience, it’s become harder to deny that suffering arises not from nature’s deficit but humanity’s failure—our failure to reverse the tightening concentration of wealth and the decline of democracies around the world.
St. Vincent Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement
Massachusetts Nurses Association
St. Vincent Hospital Nurses and Tenet Healthcare Reach Tentative Agreement Clearing the Way for an End to the Historic Nine-Month Strike Pending Ratification by the Nurses
U.S. Relaxes Restriction on Abortion Pill, Allows Women to Obtain by Mail
Reuters
The decision will increase access to medication abortion for women in remote and rural areas without providers nearby.
Afterglow
Spoon River Poetry Review
“We think what we can’t see can’t hurt us,” says poet Ann Hudson about environmental pollution. Think again.
How the Mighty Culinary Union Survived the Apocalypse
In These Times
After facing 98% unemployment in the depths of the pandemic, the strongest union in Las Vegas has risen again.
The Most Anti-Semitic President in History
New York Magazine
Trump combines militant support for Israeli expansionism with irrepressible contempt for the Jews and all they stand for.
Compassion Through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias | Joy Buolamwini
Computer vision and algorithms have increasing societal consequences. Joy Buolamwini, MIT Media Lab computer scientist and founder of Algorithmic Justice League, explores opportunities to combat computational bias.
Red Rocket | Movie Trailer
An audacious film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Takeout), Red Rocket is a darkly funny and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.
A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Closer Than You Think
In the midst of a two-year covid pandemic, it is easy to not notice that progress is being made in the battle against another pandemic threat: influenza.
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