Click Here to Read or Listen to: YIVO studied a living Yiddish culture. What happened when that world was nearly destroyed? Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the JTA website on October 11, 2026. 
Category: Politics
Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times?
Click Here to Read: Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times? The psychology behind our belief that the world is getting worse by Gurnek Bains Ph.D. on his A Global Lens blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 8, 2026.
Dark Clouds of Factory Smoke Obscure Clark Avenue Bridge Image: Frank John Aleksandrowicz (1921–2014) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Death of 87-year-old Maricarmen is reenergizing Spain’s protests to stop evictions
A Short History of Protest With Annie Leonard
Hundreds arrested on biggest day of French student protests over education resources
Click Here to Read: Hundreds arrested on biggest day of French student protests over education resources: Mass protests over decrepit conditions at France’s high schools descended into sporadic violence Tuesday, leading to nearly 500 arrests and prompting President Emmanuel Macron to call an emergency meeting. Members of the public have accused the authorities of using disproportionate force as protesters clashed with the police in several French cities By FRANCE 24 on the FRANCE 24 website on October 6, 2026.
Jules Ferry à Paris manif 2 octobre 2026 Image: Guallendra. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014). Poetry, jazz, and the restless voice of revolution
How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong
Click Here to Read: How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong: American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes. But Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena Party has boosted workers’ income without any technological tradeoffs by Jonathan Schlefer in Nation Magazine substack on October 6, 2026.
Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Image: Presidencia de Guatemala. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
