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In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers.

This a radio program recorded in the 1940s in which Woody Guthrie sings accompanied in that performance by Sonny Terry on harmonica, Pete Seeger on banjo and Cisco Houston on guitar, they sing the chorus together. Also, two short videos with Pete.

Ben Whishaw is Keira Knightley’s gay bestie in pulpy Netflix thriller Black Doves but he’s playing more than mere sassy sidekick

Judge says coffee giant has no standing in appeal of NLRB finding that it fired two workers for trying to unionize

Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics

A war between High Tech Corporate leaders and the anti-immigrant MAGA base.

"Consider this exchange, you who can think of it; The King becomes a subject, The Lord appears as a vassal and is for the human race – o sweet word in every ear – born for our comfort and salvation."

I still retain sparks of hope that 2025 will not see more gains for the biblical Four Horsemen—War, Pestilence, Famine and Devastation—but rather more struggle, at least a little forward and upward motion. Inshallah!

We need not surrender Chanukah to Zionism’s dark vision. As rabbis refocused Chanukah more than a millennium ago, we can honor the instruction in Deuteronomy, “. . . I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life . . . "