Fusion Energy: The Nuclear Weapons Connection

Karl Grossman CounterPunch
My CounterPunch focused on the radioactivity involved in fusion—that it is not “clean” despite what the press release of the Department of Energy asserted.

From Bowling Alone to Posting Alone

Anton Jäger Jacobin
Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.

A Group of Rats Is Referred to as a Mischief

Joseph Zaccardi Salt Poetry Journal
For poet Joseph Zaccardi, the Vietnam war lingers in memory for the fear it wrought among soldiers, but also the loss of camaraderie “after all these/years scattered across American towns and cities…”

A Pageant of America in 52 Poems

Jerry Dyer Portside
Each state appears here in alphabetical order. With a poem for the District of Columbia, and a poem serving as Preface, 52 poems. But This Land invites (and even demands) that its organization and its meanings be constructed by each reader.

Charlene Mitchell, 92, Dies; First Black Woman To Run for President

Clay Risen The New York Times
Charlene Mitchell led a long and multi-faceted political career, including first Black woman to run for President, leader of the movement against racial and political repression, advocate for democracy, socialism and internationalism.