Caste Links US Racism to Oppressive Structures in India and Nazi Germany.

Gaiutra Bahadur The New Republic
Book cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
Pulitzer prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s new book Caste strives to reveal the structures of US oppression and build kinship. But, while she effectively uses the vocabulary of a systemic problem, the solutions she suggests are not systemic.

These Days, Mississippi

Ann Fisher-Wirth About Place Journal
Mississippi poet Ann Fisher-Wirth addresses the persistence of racial injustice at Ole Miss and elsewhere: “I grieve/I cannot march.”

AI Tackles Protein Folding (And Wins)

Marc Zimmer The Conversation
I expect AlphaFold2 and its progeny will soon be the methods of choice to determine protein structures before resorting to experimental techniques that require painstaking, laborious work on expensive instrumentation.

Georgia Teens Trying to Flip 60,000 Students

Lauren Floyd Daily Kos
“Our goal is to flip these elections entirely through the student voting bloc." More than 23,000 Georgians are turning 18 between Nov. 3 and Jan. 5 and are eligible to vote in the Senate runoff election.

A Self-Pardon Is Incompatible With the Constitution

Constitutional expert Laurence Tribe tells Lawrence O’Donnell that if Trump tried to pardon himself, his argument would not hold up in court because it goes against the principle that no one is above the law.