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A Global Maui Moment

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
The most devastating war on the planet is the war waged against the planet.

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 19–25

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Thomas Nast cartoon of racist Georgians celebrating in 1868 Terror reigns in Georgia (in 1868). The First Great Depression (1873). First-ever Vietnam War protest (1963). The Redcoats are coming! (1768). A worthless piece of paper (1823). Nuke fallout treaty (1963). Deadly troop train (1918)

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution

Sarah Lyall The New York Times
Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”
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