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Is There Such a Thing as Sustainable Beef?

Alicia Kennedy Epicurious
With factory-farmed cattle responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions, we wondered if grass-fed beef is a more climate-friendly option. The answer? It's complicated.

books

Buying Nazism

Bill Niven History Today
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.

books

The International Brigades: Fighting Fascism in Spain

Dan Hancox The Guardian
Hemingway, Orwell and a host of others have written gainfully on the International Brigades’ resistance to Spanish Fascism. The book under review, based on extensive interviews and deep research, is considered by the reviewer to be the masterwork.

poetry

The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances

By Martín Espada Poem-a-Day
Martín Espada gives an eloquent elegy to Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, a Puerto Rican abolitionist and revolutionary who addressed issues of pandemic and racial oppression.

poetry

Bullet Points

Jericho Brown The Guardian
Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown points to a caution: “if you hear/Of me dead anywhere near/A cop, then that cop killed me.”
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