Political scientist Laleh Khalili on her article "Apocalyptic Infrastructures" for Noēma Magazine. https://www.noemamag.com/apocalyptic-infrastructures/

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1322: Infrastructure, mobilization, survival / Laleh Khalili

Historian Kevin Waite on his book "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/

1321: Slavery's westward reach / Kevin Waite

Writer Giulio D'Errico on police violence, the state and expanding rifts in Greek society, and his article "Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism" co-authored with Giovanni Marenda for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/greece-lockdown-koufontinas-protests/

1320: The authoritarian grip on Greece / Guilio D'Errico

Journalist Cerise Castle on her investigative series "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" for Knock LA, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen reflects on how Godzilla and King Kong massacre our fear of massacres. https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/

1319: LA's police gangs / Cerise Castle

Disease ecologist Luis Fernando Chaves on his dispatch "Scientists say land use drives new pandemics. But what if 'land' isn’t what they think it is?" for Pandemic Research For The People. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cW-PkPU9Z5TtoEMqKuhPnUGsmOLVp16/view

1318: Pandemics and land use / Luis Fernando Chaves

Public policy scholar Anna Artyushina on her article "The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy" for MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-trust-trusts-project-privacy-policy-opinion/

1317: Personal data, public trusts / Anna Artyushina

Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article "Mass Hipgnosis" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall

1316: Music's future on repeat / Rich Woodall

Writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide

1315: Growth, carbon, death / Ben Ehrenreich

Writer Curt Guyette on his article "The Fight for Affordable Water" for ACLU Michigan. https://www.aclumich.org/en/news/fight-affordable-water

1314: Water and democracy in Detroit / Curt Guyette

Historian Andrew Bacevich on his article "On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Biden Defers to the Blob" for TomDispatch. https://tomdispatch.com/on-shedding-an-obsolete-past/

1313: Biden and the imperial past / Andrew Bacevich

Urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin on the dynamics between urban universities and the communities outside their walls, and his book "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" from Bold Type Books. https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/davarian-l-baldwin/in-the-shadow-of-the-ivory-tower/9781568588919/

1312: When universities swallow cities / Davarian L. Baldwin

Writer Max Zirngast on his article "Turkey Is Trying to Ban the Socialist, Pro-Kurdish HDP" co-written with Alp Kayserilioğlu and Güney Işıkara via Jacobin. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/turkey-erdogan-hdp-peoples-democratic-party-pro-kurdish-socialism

1311: Turkey's fascist alliance / Max Zirngast

Jonathan Ellis and brian bean on confronting US violence at home and abroad, and their article "Rebuilding the Anti-Imperialist Movement in a New Era" for Rampant. https://rampantmag.com/2021/03/rebuilding-the-anti-imperialist-movement-in-a-new-era/

1310: Ending endless war / Jonathan Ellis + brian bean

Urban policy and planning scholar Karina Moreno on her article "Joe Biden’s Immigration Reform Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Migrant Workers" for Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/03/joe-biden-immigration-reform-us-citizenship-act

1309: Immigration under Biden / Karina Moreno

Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.

1308: Lula, lawfare and antidemocracy in Brazil / Brian Mier

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