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Decarbonizing Housing Means Fighting Landlords

VON Zach Lou

Decarbonization is necessary to preserve life as we know it on the planet. But many would have you believe that we can achieve a rapid and equitable transition to clean energy while also preserving the economy as we know it.

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Do You Know . . .

VON Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

does she belong to the wind or the wind to her, / and are the greedy wolves / waiting to tear her apart?

Odds and Ends

VON Lucy Schiller

TV news is partnering with prediction markets. What does that mean for its disproportionately old viewership?

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Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Anti-War Ally

VON Rafi Schwartz

Liberals are delighted by the MAGA titan’s opposition to the Iran War. All they’re doing is boosting the credibility of an unrepentant, pathologically dishonest, bad-faith bigot.

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RFK Jr.’s New Normal

VON Tom Bartlett

As Trump nominates a new, uncontroversial CDC director, a more restrained version of the health secretary is appearing.

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Quantum Existentialism

VON Nathan Gardels

The insight of quantum physics is that the discoveries of classical science did not so much reveal “objective truths” of the world as co-constitute them through our subjective perception of the object of inquiry.

Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?

VON Jon Danforth-Appell

Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological fact.

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Palestinian Dilemmas

VON Ahmad al-Sholi

Hamas’s launch of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood military attack on October 7, 2023, stunned Israelis and Palestinians alike. Despite the operation’s audacious scale and ambition, two years later, it must be deemed a catastrophic failure by any measure.

We Sinners, Born Again in the Breaking

VON Etienne C. Toussaint

Last time I seen the sun, it was midnight in the juke joint, horns crying through blue smoke, bodies glowing like stained glass, footsteps melting into heart pine. Read more via Scalawag : We Sinners, Born Again in the Breaking .

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See the Pig, Order the Falafel

VON Seth Millstein / Sentient

A new study finds that adding animal images to menus increases the odds of choosing the vegetarian dish by 22%.