The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers

David Dayen American Prospect
A new film from Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, takes a look at how workers have been crushed by a new corporate philosophy.

In Ukraine

Beau Beausoleil
For all the news about the invasion of Ukraine, US observers scarcely know the price of war, but as San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil writes, that won’t last forever.

Unearthing Secrets of Our Shared Human DNA

Joshua Akey The Conversation
Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes. Unearthing those extinct genomes has profound practical and philosophical implications.

Russian Protest and Exodus

Boris Kagarlitsky Russian Dissent
Military mobilization has finally buried the “Putin social contract,” which assumed the political passivity of the people. How will people act when suddenly and unwillingly awakened to politics and civic activity?