The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)
Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the…
Allusionist 217. Feminist coffee houses
In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These…
Passport power has been used as a speech weapon before.
If you do not like it, leave turns into you cannot leave.
A woman tells the history
of slavery in her family
tech won’t save us: How China’s Renewable Push Upends Geopolitics
Paris Marx is joined by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay to discuss the geopolitics behind China’s investments in green tech and electrification, and how it presents the prospect of a…
5 things from the last few days that deserve their own 36hr news
via c.a.i.t.l.y.n
Bleeding Kansas
Comedian Curtis Cook talks about John Brown
Analyzing the French in Mad Men’s ‘New Business’
French is used heavily throughout the episode, as Megan’s mother and sister help her move on from her life in New York. One conversation in particular stuck out to me.…
Why countries are suspending postal service to the US
The ‘de minimis’ exemption allowed packages worth less than $800 to enter the US duty-free