The moon mission's dark side🌒, blue dog dems🐩, why Trump doesn't get Iran😱 and David Bacon's social justice photography in the Philippines🍌

Sharing our gems from the week, especially a fabulous video created by our new intern Isabel to accompany a piece on the Apollo 11 mission.

The dark side of the moon mission

James Jeffrey

Those oh-so-familiar racial epithets

Jud Lounsbury

‘R’ is for rrrrrrracist!

Mark Fiore

Progressive Dems are taking on the Blue Dogs

Michael Sainato

Here’s what Trump doesn’t get about Iran

Stephen Zunes and Medea Benjamin

“For that kind of money,” Vonnegut cracked on the CBS Evening News, “the least [NASA] can do is discover God.” Civil rights activists, anti-Vietnam War protesters and even top scientists were skeptical of the Apollo moon mission at the time. Read.

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We’re delighted to share the fifth of a multi-part series on the social justice photography of David Bacon: “In 1997, I went to the Philippines to document child labor on banana plantations producing for the Dole Corporation . . . ”

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