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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution     Sarah Lyall September 11, 2023New 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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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?

Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?     Sarah Zhang September 13, 2023The Atlantic Studies prove that popular decongestants just don’t work. , Mpelletier1 / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0   You wake up with …

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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Big Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill

Big Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill     Rebecca Wolf September 12, 2023The Progressive They've turned the food system into a cash cow for the powerful few by undermining small farmers and encouraging operators to “get big or get out.” , (shutterstoc…

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September 18, 2023 at 5:15 AM

Sunday Science: Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom

Sunday Science: Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom     Jack Tamisiea September 12, 2023New York Times While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant …

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September 18, 2023 at 4:45 AM

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”     by Joaquin Sapien September 7, 2023Propublica Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons ne…

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September 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide     Peter Kornbluh August 31, 2023The Nation Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that…

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September 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

The Real Issue in the UAW Strike     Ronald Brownstein September 15, 2023The Atlantic Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs. , Chip Somodevilla / Getty   The United Auto…

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September 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Trump, on Meet the Press, Shows He Still Has No Policy Plans

Portside Culture Trump, on Meet the Press, Shows He Still Has No Policy Plans     Ellen Ioanes September 17, 2023Vox In Sunday’s interview with Kristen Welker, Trump went with his classic playbook of vague answers and conspiracy theories. William B. Plow…

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September 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Automakers Hand Billions to Shareholders While Stiffing Workers

Automakers Hand Billions to Shareholders While Stiffing Workers     Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Lucy Dean Stockton September 12, 2023The Lever The Big Three car companies have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks over the past year. United Auto Workers members…

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September 17, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Top Dems Press Supreme Court To Block Billionaire Tax

Top Dems Press Supreme Court To Block Billionaire Tax     Julia Rock September 13, 2023The Lever Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and a senator-turned-lobbyist are helping a dark money group pressure the high court. President Obama’s former acting Solic…

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September 17, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Multi-Millionaire CEO 0nclass Warfare

Multi-Millionaire CEO 0nclass Warfare     James Downie, MSNBC Opinion Editor September 14, 2023MSNBC The wealthy’s arrogance is wholly unearned. Luxury home developer Tim Gurner speaking at the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit, September 12, 2023.…

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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Othello and the War

Othello and the War     Victor Grossman September 11, 2023MR OnLine The world needs to end this confrontation in Ukraine, increasingly dangerous in East Asia. Regardless of differences it must be halted. Not bloodily as in Shakespeare’s tragedy, but with some form of…

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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Immediately After the 1973 Chilean Coup, US Socialists Supported Those Fighting for Freedom

Immediately After the 1973 Chilean Coup, US Socialists Supported Those Fighting for Freedom     David Duhalde Jacobin The moment that Salvador Allende was violently deposed on September 11, 1973, democratic socialists in the US knew it was a crime. They joined others …

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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Ecuador Just Showed the World What It Means To Take Climate Change Seriously

Ecuador Just Showed the World What It Means To Take Climate Change Seriously     Nick Gottlieb September 5, 2023Canadian Dimension Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous sovereignty seriously, all with on…

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September 16, 2023 at 3:25 AM

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity     September 15, 2023xxxxxx Rockin' Solidarity Forever. Victor Jara | Manifiesto. Writers' Guild of America Strike Song. GmacCash | On Strike (UAW). Lisa Simpson's Union Strike Folk Song | Dan Cribbs. Paul …

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September 16, 2023 at 2:05 AM

‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike

‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike     Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter September 15, 2023Labor Notes “The GM CEO, she got 36 percent in raises since our last contract, making $26 million,” one worker says. “Like Fain sa…

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September 16, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Earth ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space for Humanity’, Scientists Find

Earth ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space for Humanity’, Scientists Find     Damian Carrington September 13, 2023Guardian The first complete ‘scientific health check’ shows that most global systems are now beyond the stable range in which modern civilization emerged …

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September 16, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Alvin Bragg Keeps Winning in the Trump Hush Money Case

Alvin Bragg Keeps Winning in the Trump Hush Money Case     Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann and Joshua Kolb September 13, 2023MSNBC The delay in Bragg's hush money case against Donald Trump is a victory for democracy. It makes room in the schedule for perhaps the most …

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September 16, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Ig Nobel Prizes 2023: Rock Licking and Other Unlikely Winners

Ig Nobel Prizes 2023: Rock Licking and Other Unlikely Winners     Marc Abrahams September 14, 2023New Scientist The year 2023 brings a new crop of 10 Ig Nobel prizes, each for a piece of research chosen with the same simple criterion – that it makes people laugh, the…

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September 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Yellow Stars

Portside Culture Yellow Stars     Elizabeth Zelvin “I will not be invisible,” writes NY poet Elizabeth Zelvin of her Jewish female identity, “I will not be herded/…I do not accept your yellow stars.” ,   Yellow Stars By Elizabeth Zelvin the Nazis s…

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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

When Auto Workers Stand Up, Here’s How To Stand With Them

When Auto Workers Stand Up, Here’s How To Stand With Them     Keith Brower Brown September 13, 2023Labor Notes The likely Auto Workers (UAW) strike, which the union is dubbing the "Stand Up Strike," could be a turning point for the U.S. labor movement—and all of us a…

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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some     Esau McCaulley September 10, 2023New York Times Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast…

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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

‘Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s New Class of Conscientious Objectors

‘Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s New Class of Conscientious Objectors     Oren Ziv September 5, 2023+972 Magazine Eight new draft refusers speak about the occupation, the anti-judicial reform protests, and conscientious objection as a tool of protest. …

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September 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Taylor Swift Gave the Union Everything It Wants

Taylor Swift Gave the Union Everything It Wants     Kevin Hurler September 14, 2023Gizmodo The singer-songwriter met the demands of striking SAG-AFTRA, including streaming residuals, to release The Eras Tour documentary. Credit: KISS 108 FM,   As SAG-AFT…

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September 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;     September 14, 2023xxxxxx …

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September 14, 2023 at 6:35 AM

Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist

Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist     Luke Goldstein September 13, 2023The American Prospect On day one of the historic monopolization trial, the government put Google’s chief economist on the stand to show that the company valued def…

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September 14, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws

Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws     September 1, 2023Zinn Education Project While book bans make the headlines, the chilling effect of the bans and anti-education laws have an even deeper impact. Student counter-protesters in Langley, …

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September 14, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 As Aid Ended and Prices Rose

Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 As Aid Ended and Prices Rose     Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis September 12, 2023New York Times The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Volunteers at Common Pantry, a nonprofit food pantry in Chicago. Povert…

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September 14, 2023 at 5:50 AM

‘Corporate Media Will Always Side With CEOs’: Sanders Rips Coverage of Looming UAW Strike

‘Corporate Media Will Always Side With CEOs’: Sanders Rips Coverage of Looming UAW Strike     Jessica Corbett September 12, 2023Common Dreams "It is the totally reasonable demand that autoworkers, who have made enormous financial sacrifices over the past 40 years, fi…

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September 14, 2023 at 1:40 AM

The Red and the Queer

Portside Culture The Red and the Queer     Alan Wald September 8, 2023Against the Current Reviewer Wald praises this book's "grace," for the way its author "puts into conversation the deeply intertwined histories of what he calls 'straight, gay, or otherwise qu…

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September 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Africa and France

Global Left Midweek – Africa and France     September 13, 2023xxxxxx A deep dive into the many sharpening contradictions in de-colonized Africa A protester holds a sign that reads, 'No to France the thief of Africa' as people gather to show their support to Bu…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How a Strip Mall in Hadley Became the Center of the Modern-Day Labor Movement

How a Strip Mall in Hadley Became the Center of the Modern-Day Labor Movement     Diti Kohli September 7, 2023The Boston Globe Workers at three stores all in a row in this Western Mass. town are forming unions Once heralded for asparagus farms and flower stand…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Are Ready To Strike

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Are Ready To Strike     Sarah Lazare September 11, 2023In These Times - Labor Record profits should mean record pay—but that’s not how it’s played out at the Big Three automakers. These Ford workers have had enough. As…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room

The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room     Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo September 12, 2023Nation of Change We can't keep ignoring its enormous "bootprint." ,   With nearly 10,000 people expected to take to the streets of New York Cit…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let’s Remember Pinochet Resisters’ Inspiring Legacy

50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let’s Remember Pinochet Resisters’ Inspiring Legacy     Margaret Power September 11, 2023Truthour On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, let’s follow Pinochet resisters’ example of solidarity in repressive times. Thousands of…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”

Portside Culture Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”     Billy J. Stratton September 8, 2023Hollywood Progressive A Zombie Film that Still Speaks to Our Current World, and with Quite a Bit of Class "28 Days Later" Classic Danny Boyle Zombie Horror Film Starrin…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023     September 12, 2023xxxxxx Are corporations a woke conspiracy? ,   The Patriarchs’ War on Women Why is Music Getting Sadder? The Anti-Education Agenda How We Oppose Antisemitism When Doctors Go Unio…

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September 12, 2023 at 4:40 AM

‘It Became an Obsession’: The Long Search for the Remains of Pinochet’s Victims

‘It Became an Obsession’: The Long Search for the Remains of Pinochet’s Victims     John Bartlett September 11, 2023The Guardian As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death sq…

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September 12, 2023 at 1:25 AM

Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts

Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts     Jon Marcus September 1, 2023The Hechinger Report With student loan repayments about to restart, more people with ballooning college debt are aging into retirement Elderly Americans Have $36 Billion…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18     Deadly hurricane in 1928. Slavecatchers stymied (1858). Feds' forgeries flop (1918). Deadly racist church bombing (1963). Settlers take over Cherokee Strip (1893). Thin-skinned cops get served (1994). Eugene Debs speaks …

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup

Portside Culture After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup     Katie Jane Fernelius August 29, 2023The Guardian Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of th…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Apartheid by Another Name

Apartheid by Another Name     Laura Burocco September 8, 2023Il Manifesto Global The fire in a Johannesburg building killing 73 people is the result of decades of disastrous housing policies and the criminalization of poverty in South Africa. ,   The Joh…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

“Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

“Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program     Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Roy Eidelson September 5, 2023Democracy Now! Doing Harm investigates the American Psychological Association’s complicity in post-9/1…

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September 11, 2023 at 7:05 AM

Sunday Science: Do We Have Evidence for New Physics? Or Not?

Sunday Science: Do We Have Evidence for New Physics? Or Not?     Sabine Hossenfelder August 5, 2023Sabine Hossenfelder Do we have evidence of new physics or not? That's what we'll talk about today. , Sabine Hossenfelder       Biden’s Horse-Trading on N…

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September 11, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities of Political Crises

Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities of Political Crises     Pauline Lipman, Rico Gutstein September 7, 2023Convergence For the US there is much to learn from the Chilean experience about relationships between left government, movements, and popular protagoni…

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September 11, 2023 at 4:55 AM

Delegitimize the Court

Delegitimize the Court     Elie Mystal, Nikolas Bowie, Rhiannon Hamam August 22, 2023The Nation On the final episode of Contempt of Court, Elie Mystal is joined by legal experts Nikolas Bowie and Rhiannon Hamam to understand how we might strip the court of its presum…

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September 11, 2023 at 3:05 AM

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored     Akil Vicks September 10, 2023Jacobin Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working …

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September 11, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Ships Going Out

Ships Going Out     James Oakes August 30, 2023The New York Review In American Slavers, Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. John Greenwood: Sea Captains Carousing i…

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September 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Suits Is an Unlikely Time Capsule for a Troubled Decade

Portside Culture Suits Is an Unlikely Time Capsule for a Troubled Decade     Aja Romano September 9, 2023Vox Suits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming. Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in Suits., hane Mahood/USA Networ…

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September 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War     Roger Bybee September 1, 2023MRonline Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022). …

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