It’s Settled: How Adult Brains Make New Neurons     Nora Bradford July 3, 2025 Scientific American Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from. These new findings settle a major dispute that neuroscientists ha…

The Radical Past and Future of Christian Zionism     Sarah Jones July 1, 2025 New York Magazine Christian Zionism is again salient as Donald Trump surrounds himself with Evangelicals who profess the ideology and he pays lip service to it, as he does to other…

Portside Culture Teaching Poetry in the Prisons     Susan Kelly-DeWitt Poet Susan Kelly Dewitt takes us inside the mind and heart of the lockhouse. , Gunpowder Press   I think of him as a victim (a veteran) of war-- every day was the…

What Zohran Mamdani Needs To Do To Succeed As New York City’s Mayor     Peter Dreier June 30, 2025 xxxxxx Mamdani has one more big hurdle to overcome–a general election in November. Pulling together a successful electoral coalition is difficult, but forging …

The Republicans’ Draconian Budget Bill Is Now a Reality     Heidi Shierholz July 3, 2025 Economic Policy Institute The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwh…

Trump’s Sneak Attack on Medicare     Robert Kuttner July 2, 2025 The American Prospect For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicar…

My Favorite ‘Anti-Semite’ – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and All Those Who Refuse To Be Silenced on Israeli Apartheid     Tony Karon July 1, 2025 Rootless Cosmopolitan In honor of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and all those who refuse to be silenced on Isr…

Tidbits- July 3-Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country’s Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; More     July 3, 2025…