- A Summer Against ICE in Memory of Joshua Clover
- The End of Unconditional Support for Israel
- Three Years Since Dobbs
- The Right and ’50s Nostalgia
- Zohran’s Joyous Ground Game
- MAGA’s War on Public Science
- Climate Movement Revving Up
- A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE
- Ma Rainey’s Queer Blues
- Learning from Anti-Nazi Resistance
A Summer Against ICE in Memory of Joshua Clover
By Jasper Bernes
Verso
Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily life.” Published nine years before his death this April, his singular Riot. Strike. Riot is as much written about such moments as it is written from and to them.
The End of Unconditional Support for Israel
By Peter Beinart
Jewish Currents
Trump’s redefinition of America’s imperial role is emboldening US officials to distinguish American interests from Israeli ones—hearkening back to an older era of US–Israel relations—and freeing European governments to challenge the Jewish state without fearing American retribution. The age of virtually unconditional Western government support for Israel is coming to an end.
Three Years Since Dobbs
By Stella Adams
Feminist Majority Foundation
The political impact of Dobbs remains visible. Public support for legal abortion remains high, and abortion policy was a central issue in the 2024 election. Lawmakers in protective states have passed legislation to safeguard access, while those in states with bans are pushing for more restrictions.
The Right and ’50s Nostalgia
By Meagan Day
Jacobin
Conservatives think we need to resurrect traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline. But what Americans miss about mid-century America isn’t the chauvinistic cultural values — it’s the economic equality created by strong unions and worker power.
Zohran’s Joyous Ground Game
By Jake Offenhartz
Associated Press
“People would come to us who never even thought of canvassing and say they wanted to get involved, they wanted to get to know their neighbors, they wanted to be part of this. We went from basically 300 volunteers in December to being able to launch canvases throughout the city with over 10,000 people.”
MAGA’s War on Public Science
By Nima Bassiri
The Baffler
Eroding the country’s weather preparedness is neither ignorance nor madness; it is, instead, the most rarefied expression of economic reasoning, the immaculately morbid logic of capitalism at work. As such, what we must begin to see is that it is ultimately economic rationality, and not the will to ignorance, that underwrites so much of today’s so-called war on science.
Climate Movement Revving Up
• 160+ Global Groups Demand ‘Real’ Climate Action By Rosa Galvez, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer et al., WECAN
• Villainize Big Oil! By Dharna Noor, The Guardian
• Ecofeminists Meet By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes On DOGE
By Meg Duff
Capital and Main
About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung, Anita Wolfe said. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners are twice as likely to die of lung diseases than nonminers. Wolfe called black lung and silicosis “entirely preventable.”
Ma Rainey’s Queer Blues
By Deborah Nicholls-Lee
BBC
Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey’s sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect. With its out-and-proud assertion in the second verse, “I want the whole world to know,” this unapologetic proclamation of being what was then labelled as “a lady lover” is one of the world's earliest gay anthems.
Learning From Anti-Nazi Resistance
By Luke Berryman
The Guardian
Whether they were satirists drawing anti-Nazi cartoons in 1920s Germany or former neo-Nazis becoming peace advocates in the 21st-century US, resisters sought to improve life for themselves and others in the here and now, in any way that they could, no matter how small.
