Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry
In this 1985 interview, Anne Rohmer interviews Tina Turner, who has finally risen to the top of the pop music ladder and been honored at the Grammy Awards.
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics | FRONTLINE
A year after Uvalde, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community’s trauma and the fight over assault rifles.
AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough
Researchers at Google research lab DeepMind trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms to tackle an age-old math problem: matrix multiplication.
Remote Work Continues To Be a Battleground in the Struggle Between Bosses and Workers
Jacobin
Just because not all jobs can be done at home does not mean that no jobs should be done at home. Working from home won’t end exploitation, but it’s nonetheless an important front on which labor can strive to secure improved working arrangements.
Simply Breathing
Killing George Floyd
Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. (More will follow in June.)
We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner
RollingStone
Nothing could ever scare the fire out of her voice, which carried the whole story of American music in it. Tina Turner’s voice will never go silent. In the end, she is the big wheel who keeps on turning, forever. The Queen of Rock and Roll.
Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.
New York Times
Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? The difference is Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the U.S. prioritizes subsidizing people with vouchers
These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders — And No Longer Feeling Alone
+972 Magazine
Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate. Young people are more willing to hear about the occupation, army refusal is growing more widespread.
The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds
Los Angeles Review of Books
While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have historically been the most hard-fought battles. Now there is streaming, and AI.
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