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For Donald Trump, Information Has Always Been Power

Andrea Bernstein ProPublica
People have wondered why the former president collected classified intel, speculating that he is just a packrat. But he has a long history of gathering and wielding sensitive info to help himself.

Eating and Aging: A Complex Dynamic System

Columbia University
How does what we eat affect our healthspan and longevity? The answer is unavoidably complex, according to a new study of how normal variations in dietary patterns affect human aging, longevity, and overall health.

Dia Workers Unionize

Leonard Sparks Highland Current
More than 90 percent of workers at Dia:Beacon and the other exhibition spaces run by the Dia Art Foundation voted on Sept. 13 to join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers’ Technical, Office and Professional Union as part of a wave of organizing at arts organizations.

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction Is Essential Reading

Jeff Goodwin Jacobin
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America is one of the greatest modern studies of revolution and counterrevolution. It’s also an extraordinary example of a materialist and class analysis of race under capitalism.