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Whether or not one agrees with Tweed’s definition of religion, his choice to begin his story in ancient Texas toward the end of the last Ice Age in North America, rather than New England or Jamestown in the 1600s, is the first of many refreshing narrative twists about who belongs in American religious history and what should count as religion.

Drawing down carbon from the air and stashing it in underground rock formations has been framed as an essential way to slow and reverse global warming. But new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds there are far fewer suitable places to do this than previously thought.

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here.

Report reveals ‘true scale’ of environmental impact of pig and poultry farming.

Impasse succeeds in its aim of candidly assessing our planetary predicament and offering a realistic, ethical way forward. Its achievement lies not in offering solutions—since Scranton persuasively argues that none exist—but in clarifying the nature of the bind we are in and offering a way to live meaningfully within it.

In this week’s Frankly, Nate weighs the value of a pound of gold with other things that we derive worth from in our lives – from dollars and bitcoin to…less pecuniary markers.

Our current system for elections to the House of Representatives systematically enables gerrymandering and helps trap the Left inside the Democratic Party. We need proportional representation.

In an era when AI delivers the answer before the question is even asked, the sanctity of wonder is slipping away, and soon the act of asking might vanish entirely.

Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar MP told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.

After publishing her seminal text The Dialectic Of Sex, feminist activist Shulamith Firestone largely withdrew from public life. But her recently reissued 1980s fiction contains impassioned cries against social marginalisation and abandonment.

Some have argued that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new initiative should build its own institutions. Really, it should focus on influencing popular discourse and existing power structures - just like Ukip did, writes Lewis Bassett.

While Starmer flashes his moral void and Farage gets a BBC fluff job, the people carry on fighting ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ For UK comedy, these days one has to depend on the promotional videos still scuttling out from the Prime Minister’s office, like perky little cockroaches. In the recent attempt to launch “Phase 2”

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Charlotte Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx during the 1970s.

Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions…

Zohran Mamdani denounced the firing of four CUNY faculty for pro-Palestine activism. This highlights the strength of the movement students, faculty, and staff have been building. Now is the time to bring more people into the fight against repression.

Vivek Chibber on how we should understand capitalism's middle strata — and why so many professionals are moving toward anti-capitalist politics.

Can preparing for war really keep the peace?

Over the course of eight hours, the Metropolitan Police only managed to arrest around one-third of the approximately 1,500 protesters holding signs expressing support for proscribed group Palestine Action. Elderly and disabled demonstrators were carried away to the disgust of crowds. Harriet Williamson reports.