Trump’s DOJ Is Hiring Only the Best MAGA Wing Nuts

A future Democratic president will have to do more than rehire a competent civil service, they’ll have to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench.

Leonard Peltier’s Fight Isn’t Over

A New York City art show featured works by the American Indian Movement activist, who was incarcerated for nearly half a century until a partial commutation by President Biden.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 14-

Due to a sudden computer problem, This Week in People's History will not appear this week.

Columbus’ Revealing Writings Religion and Conquest

Columbus’ writings show the conquest and colonization of the Western Hemisphere were inseparable from efforts to spread Christianity. Catholic Iberians, English Anglicans and Puritans, and French Huguenots all latched onto that same idea.

Louise Vincent Built the Collective Power of Drug Users

Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue

Star Talk: Inside the Search for Extra Dimensions

Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Jordan Klepper sit down with Lara Anderson, string theorist and associate professor of physics at Virginia Tech to talk physics and take viewer questions.

Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis

A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.

Brazil’s Angry Tide and the Struggles Ahead

Flávio Bolsonaro of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Lula's predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, led with 47% of the vote over incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's 45%. They will face each other in a runoff on 25 October 2026.

Boxcar to Nowhere

American lore about hoboes has sugared over the economic and environmental forces that drove people from their homes and onto the rails and roads in the first place, as a new history lays out.

The Making of Israel’s Palestinian Mafias

An epidemic of criminal violence is devastating Palestinian communities inside Israel, with this year’s death toll reaching 168 at the time of recording. But the numbers tell only part of the story: Mafia networks have penetrated almost every aspect
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Culture

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The Next Generation of Cultural Stewards

The editors Newmansown.org News
Tlingit & Haida’s Traditional Food Security program connects Native youth with traditional foods that are nutrient dense, unprocessed, and culturally relevant. This increases traditional food access and encourages youth to make healthy food choices.

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Questionnaire

Wendell Berry
Poet Wendell Berry asks the questions that our leaders, in their eagerness to confuse and exploit us, neglect to ask.

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Snow Globe Palimpsest

Shaul Magid Los Angeles Review of Books
Benjamin Moser delivers biographical sketches of Jews who refused to abandon the Diaspora.

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Food Stamp Catastrophe

Natalie Pattillo The Bittman Project
A distribution station of the Food Bank for New York City, 2025 In the wealthiest country on earth, we are experiencing a human-made nutrition crisis. Since H.R.1 (House Resolution) passed in July 2025, an estimated 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost SNAP benefits.

Labor

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Unions Step Up To Meet the Moment

Stephanie Luce Convergence
Labor unions, as individual organizations and in coalitions like May Day Strong, are mobilizing to defend democracy this fall.

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UAW President Shawn Fain Nears Reelection Victory

Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automakers, other bold contract fights, and new organizing campaigns.

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A Trusteeship in Buffalo

Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon New Politics
1,000 Health Care Workers Protest Take-Over of Their Local. Are Union Officials Listening?

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Federal Workers Notch Win Against Illegal RIFs

Whitney Curry WimbishAmer The American Prospect
Organized labor won a major victory last month in a settlement ordering the Trump administration to announce that it has abandoned its attempt to illegally fire millions of federal workers.

Friday nite video

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Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

The intended meaning of this classic -- if any -- is obscure, but the lasting impact of its brooding sense of impending catastrophe, or righteous settlement of debts, is huge. Many questions about tomorrow, and no clear answers.

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The Corruption at Starlink Is Shocking

The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.