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Embracing Sensitivity as Strength: How Highly Sensitive Men Are Leading the Way to a More Compassionate Future

Whether we’re facing flooding, AI disruption, or authoritarianism, it will be the people around us who get us through.

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UIC researchers predict that the Sahara Desert could see up to 75% more rain by the end of this century due to rising global temperatures. Using 40 climate models, the team found widespread precipitation increases across Africa, though some regions may dry out. The results suggest a major rebalancing of the continent’s climate. Scientists stress that adaptation planning is essential to prepare for both wetter and drier futures.

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Arguing that medicine has matured beyond a trade, this essay proposes recognizing it as a Fifth Estate to protect it from political and legislative overreach.

The Microsoft co-founder thinks that a 'doomsday outlook' may not be helpful—instead, he's pushing for a 'different view.'

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

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Even if the Mueller investigation concludes with Trump's impeachment, the spectacle of the investigation has served to immobilize millions.

How are workplace struggles changing alongside work itself? Strategizing for 21st-century labor resistance.

David Remnick talks with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about her three years in Congress, how Joe Biden is doing in the White House, the threat that Trumpism poses to American democracy, and her vision for how mass movements can change the country for the better.

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Critical thinking is disappearing in modern society as we explore the psychology behind collective stupidity, cognitive biases, information overload, groupth...

"Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything."

Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.

In memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian anti-fascist and hardcore musician, murdered 20 years ago.

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Minja Koskela is leader of Finland’s Left Alliance. She spoke to Jacobin about how the right-wing-populist Finns Party is using its place in government to attack labor and public services, and how her party is resisting austerian dogmas.

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It’s a year since Trump’s election, and the liberal commentariat says it doesn’t matter what you call him, so long as you call him out. I disagree. The beginning of every cure is diagnosis. A cold is treated differently than bacterial pneumonia: One you fight with Tylenol (if you can still buy it), the other with penicillin.  A mafia capo can be brought down by the IRS; a fascist requires mobilization. So, we need to get this right.

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