Video: VP Harris uses Trump’s own words about “the enemy within” to prosecute him
Lawrence O’Donnell details how Vice President Harris played Donald Trump’s “dangerous” remarks directly for voters in Pennsylvania to prosecute the case that Trump is too “unstable and unhinged” to be president again.
Zhe Li: Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns
The shift is worsening droughts in some regions,intensifying flooding in others, and putting water resources that many communities rely on at risk. When atmospheric rivers reach far northward into the Arctic, they can also melt sea ice, affecting the global climate.
Thomas McGuire: A Scientist Marvels at Magpie Mob Tactics
Intent on witnessing interactions between magpies and members of the genus elgaria, a scientist released an alligator lizard into a large enclosure housing three captive magpies.
Ruth Muskrat Bronson: Two Poems
If you could know the empty ache of loneliness,
Masked well behind the calm indifferent face
Of us who pass you by in studied hurriedness
Tena Thau: Unsanitize the genocide
In 1967, Martin Luther King was moved to break his silence over the Vietnam War (at a time when the war was still very popular among the American public), after seeing images in Ramparts magazine of Vietnamese children with napalm burns.
Larry Levis: Family Romance
Abstaining clouds that passed, & kept
Their own counsel, we
Were different, we kept our own counsel.
Brett Wilkins: ‘We’ll Come for You Next’: Israel Threatened to Kill Teen Journalist in Gaza—Then Did
“Western journalists and editors should hang their heads in shame for their outrageous silence in the face of these crimes,” said one professor.
Zeina Azzam: Alive in Gaza
Ahmed spends hours each day trying to find potable water, wood to make a fire, anything for his family to eat.
Sophie Cabot Black: As to Why We Will Not Stop (Making the Hats)
We have come to know the truth
As no longer true— the old ways do not work
Against the new.
Dr. Michael Greger: Health Benefits of Coffee
The Beverage Guidance Panel, assembled to provide recommendations on benefits and risks of various beverage categories, found tea and coffee—preferably without creamer or sweetener—tied as the number-two healthiest beverages, second … Continue reading
Mosab Abu Toha: Shrapnel Looking for Laughter
Shrapnel flies in the dark,
looks for the family’s peals of
laughter hiding behind piles of disfigured
walls and bleeding picture frames.
Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)
We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.
Rebecca Senf: Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border
Bernal invented a style of art photography while creating an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios.
Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”
