Playing With Kids Is Important for Chimpanzee Mothers

So on this Mother’s Day, consider raising a glass to also celebrate these amazing – and tired – chimpanzee moms.

Supreme Court: Cops Can Steal Your Stuff

By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.

How Bondage Built the Church

Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance

Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

What Latin American Lit Can Teach Its Current Leaders

Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

The Promise and Problems of US Construction Industry

A former union leader wrestles with the challenge of making construction work the path to the middle class it once was

The Ponzi-Friendliest Court in America

Steward Health just filed for bankruptcy in Houston’s scandal-plagued, private equity-pilled bankruptcy court.

Will Palestinians Create a New Palestinian Politics

The first task is to prevent the attack on Rafah and end the genocide. However, soon thereafter, the political malaise that has befallen the Palestinian people must be overcome.

Groups Look To Bail Out Black Mothers for Mother’s Day

“We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make the system. The system says, ‘You are innocent until proven guilty.’”

Why Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine

If we are to make meaning out of “Asian America” this AAPI Heritage Month, we must root ourselves in intersectional principles, draw threads across global and local struggles, and forge paths toward a world free from U.S. militarism and forever wars.
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Culture

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Undone

Michelle Morin Canary Literary Review
South Dakota poet Michelle Morin takes a super-long view of climate change, with or without us.

books

The Illiberalism at America’s Core

Julian E. Zelizer The New Republic
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

food

The Refillery Is Coming for Your Grocery Store Routine

Kate Ray Taste Cooking
At package-free stores you bring your own container, weigh it, and fill it with the amount of rice or walnuts or Peanut M&Ms that you want to take home. In the bigger context of the zero-waste movement, do these refilleries actually mean anything?

poetry

Evelyn Hutchins

Peter Neil Carroll Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Saturday May 4 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) honors the memory of the US volunteers of the Spanish Civil War by awarding the ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award to “18by Vote.”

Labor

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Organize the Unorganized

Benjamin Y. Fong Jacobin
A limited series podcast covering the 1930s rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and its legacy.

labor

More Than 400 Lab Professionals at LabCorp Win a Union

Stand Stand
The lab professionals employed by the medical lab services company, LabCorp of America, held a union election from March 1-3 where 434 workers voted to join together in a union with the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

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Organizing the South: We Look Back To Move Ahead

Ben Wilkins Convergence
Taken together, the history, economy & ruling ideology of the US South make it difficult to build workers’ power. But armed with the lessons from the CIO’s Operation Dixie, & fueled by the momentum of recent victories, organizers see a way forward.

Friday nite video

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Gaza, Gaza

Probably the most famous actor in Germany, Dieter #Hallervorden, sides with the people of Gaza and for a peaceful future for Israel

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Smoking Is Awesome

Smoking is way more than a physical addiction; it creates a temporary problem and offers an instant solution. One drag and instantly you feel really good.