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October 26, 2019

GM Workers Ratify Contract Though 'Mixed at Best'

Chris Brooks, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes

Worley worried about the union's future: “They say 'we'll get 'em next time,'” he said, “but there may not be a next time. We lost 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years.”

October 25, 2019

The Double Standard at Work: European Corporate Investment and Workers' Rights in the American South

AFL-CIO AFL-CIO

In their home countries, European companies respect workers’ organizing and bargaining rights and commit themselves to international core labor standards. But they do not always live up to these global standards in their Southern U.S. operations.

October 25, 2019

Most Witches Are Women, Because Witch Hunts Were All About Persecuting the Powerless

Bridget Marshall The Conversation

Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials is gender. Witch trials weren’t just about baseless accusations. They were also about a justice system that escalated local grievances to capital offenses and targeted a subjugated group.

October 25, 2019

Millions of Black People Affected by Racial Bias in Health-Care Algorithms

Heidi Ledford Nature

Study reveals rampant racism in decision-making software used by US hospitals — and highlights ways to correct it.

October 25, 2019

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern The New York Times

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

October 25, 2019

The Trump-Ukraine Scandal: More than a Quid Pro Quo, It’s Extortion

David Corn Mother Jones

And the president is again trying to gaslight the public.

Lebanon protests: 'I feel proud to be Lebanese'

October 25, 2019

Protests against the government in Lebanon are continuing, despite the army moving to reopen key roads.

Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy

October 25, 2019

A major milestone in quantum computing research opens up new possibilities for this technology. The Google AI Quantum team demonstrated how a quantum computer can perform a task no classical computer can in an experiment called "quantum supremacy."

Colbert Gets a Surprise Visit From Rudy Giuliani

October 25, 2019

Did Rudy Giuliani and his fraud buddies lead the President to impeachment by pushing debunked Ukraine conspiracy theories? Here to tell us is the man himself, Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani (aka friend of the show John Lithgow). #Colbert #JohnLithgow

Jojo Rabbit | Movie

October 25, 2019

Writer director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, Jojo Rabbit, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.