What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism

Peter Dreier Dissent Magazine
The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.

To a Stranger

Walt Whitman Whitman Archive
Pride Flag Waves Over San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade
In this season of gay pride and the varieties of love, Walt Whitman speaks to us on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Dogs Have Eyes Just for Us. Literally.

Haley Weiss The Atlantic
In a remarkably short period of time, dogs have evolved specialized eye muscles that allow them to display their emotions to their human friends

12 Ways the Progressive Takeover Is Transforming New York

Jesse McKinley and Vivian Wang The New York Times
Democrats, leading both chambers of the New York legislature for the first time in nearly a decade, enacted an agenda that was undeniably liberal, often landmark, and for those in the majority, made up for lost time

When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government

In November 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of 2,000 white men expelled black and white political leaders, destroyed the property of the city’s black residents, and killed dozens--if not hundreds--of people. For decades, the story of this violence was buried, while the perpetrators were cast as heroes.

Our Ignorance About Gravity

This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and distance scales and constraints on Newton's inverse square law at the human and microscopic and atomic scales. Only on solar system scales or larger do we have good constraints on Newton's law of gravitation.