Click Here to Read: Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump by Robert Reich on his Substack on October 2, 2026.
Image: Daniel Torok. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Author: Tamar Schwartz
Plague More Than Five Millennia Ago Sets Back the Date of the Earliest Outbreak
Click Here to Read: Plague More Than Five Millennia Ago Sets Back the Date of the Earliest Outbreak The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor Yersinia pestis” bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread by Sonja Anderson on the Smithsonian Magazine website on June 18, 2026.
Scanning electron microphotograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubbonic plague) in the foregutte of the flea vector Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/Public/Images.htm Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal
Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal. U.S. troops complete their withdrawal from Iraq as Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace proposal, oil climbs past $100 a barrel, and the Treasury market closes its worst quarter since 1994 on The Nation substack on October 03, 2026.
U.S. Soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010, to conduct a patrol. The Soldiers are from 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. William Tremblay, U.S. Army/Released) Image: The U.S. Army. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Where a land ethic blooms: Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours
Click Here to Read: Where a land ethic blooms: Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours by Craig Maier on the Aeon website.
Oglala National Grassland, Nebraska, USA, near Toadstool Geologic Park. Brian Kell (Bkell). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
