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Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon’s Battle Against ‘The Man’

Judith Shulevitz The New York Review of Books
Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement. Here was a group of mothers who, rather than wanting equal work and equal pay, demanded that the government support them while they stayed home and raised their kids.

America’s Dairy Farmers are Struggling and Unsupported

Debbie Weingarten In These Times
Today, she says, roadsides are dotted with “for sale” signs. Farms sit vacant, their owners having relocated to urban areas in search of work.Once-pristine barns have become dilapidated after years of low prices left farmers without money for repairs

What does it Mean to Return, and Return, and Return?

Ayah Abdelhaleem Jadaliyya
Palestinians continue to return to the border. The weekly marches, which began nearly three months ago as part of the Great March of Return, were intended to build until Nakba Day on May 15th, yet Palestinians continue their March...

Dispatches From the Culture Wars

Portside
Civility is where you find it; The power behind the primary; Race shaming as S.O.P.; Rearming labor; Momentous marches

What Did Ancient Whales Look Like?

Nick Pyenson Science Friday
Author and curator Nick Pyenson describes the similarities and differences between humans and our distant mammalian relatives.
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