For my grandmother, Valentina Rachman, leaving the USSR was a momentous and difficult choice. Making her way across Europe to a camp in Germany, and … Why it’s easier to move country than switch social mediaRead more
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How Warming Oceans Are Accelerating the Climate Crisis
The climate emergency is bigger than many experts, elected officials, and activists realize. Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions have overheated Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing punishing heat waves, … How Warming Oceans Are Accelerating the Climate CrisisRead more
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America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
Nearly half a millennium ago Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Princedescribed three options for how a conquering power might treat states that it defeated in war but … America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial SocialismRead more
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Pandemic Aid for Undocumented People
New York’s “Excluded Workers” Demand First U.S. Fund to Secure Pandemic Aid for Undocumented People More than a year into the pandemic and the economic … Pandemic Aid for Undocumented PeopleRead more
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The feminist was a spook
Gloria Steinem’s new book, “My Life on the Road,” recounts her life’s journeys and travels. Early reviews and profiles reveal incredible detail of Steinem’s barrier-breaking … The feminist was a spookRead more
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The Evil Within Us
Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried … The Evil Within UsRead more
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Hospitals Sued Patients over Medical Debt
We look at pandemic profiteering in the medical system as a new report by Kaiser Health News reveals some of the nation’s richest hospitals recorded … Hospitals Sued Patients over Medical DebtRead more
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Rape as a Weapon of War in Tigray
I think probably the best way to explain, in a nutshell, is that this is essentially a conflict for power, between the TPLF, the Tigray … Rape as a Weapon of War in TigrayRead more
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The Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine
In the past few days, liberal Democrats Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, academics Ibram X. Kendi and Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, … The Danger of the Return of Racial MedicineRead more
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Google is making another attempt at personal health records
Google is making another attempt at personal health records Google is recruiting people to give feedback for a new consumer-facing medical records tool, Stat News … Google is making another attempt at personal health recordsRead more