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Covid-19: Where It Came From, and Why There Are More To Come

May 6, 2022

Researchers who monitor emerging infectious diseases say that in the last decade the number has increased to about five per year. “It’s our human behavior and the risky things that we do that put ourselves at risk for exposure to these viruses.”

May 4, 2022

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2022

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Protests and a major conference of Latin American social movements mark the world’s workers’ own day

April 12, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 12, 2022

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The right is on the march — but not without resistance

April 13, 2022

Global Left Midweek – April 13, 2022

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Economic collapse brings mass unrest in Sri Lanka, and social ferment brings a new kind of political leader in Colombia

March 13, 2022

Leaded Petrol May Have Lowered the IQ of over Half the US Population

Clare Wilson New Scientist

Exposure to leaded petrol as a child has been linked to an average IQ drop of 2.6 points among US adults, increasing to 5.9 points among those born in the mid-to-late 1960s

March 11, 2022

Why Do Some People Never Get Covid?

Daniela J. Lamas The New York Times

Researchers throughout the globe are asking, and attempting to answer, why one parent without identifiable risk factors becomes critically ill while their spouse and children never test positive or are able to manage their symptoms at home.

February 10, 2022

A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing

Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Nina Gregg The Nation

Without a new approach to manufacturing, we may protect the environment better but continue to reinforce racial and economic inequality. Manufacturing is the only economic sector that can generate new wealth for communities currently shut out

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January 11, 2022

Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up Captures the Stupidity of Our Political Era

Branco Marcetic Jacobin

The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational.

December 19, 2021

A Massive Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years

Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen ProPublica

Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor.

December 13, 2021

The Father of Environmental Justice, on Whether We’re All Doomed

Robert Bullard, Jamil Smith Vox

Robert Bullard joined Vox Conversations to discuss the global struggle to keep this world safe to live in, and how racism gets in the way.

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