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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg The New York Times
A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.

Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

Dennis Overbye The New York Times
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

Colonize Then, Deport Now

Jonathan Ort Africa is a Country
Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

Daniel Bensaid and Question of Strategy

Sankha Subhra Biswas Socialist Project
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not merely a geopolitical event but also resulted, globally, in a profound crisis in revolutionary thought.
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