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06/01/26
Author: 
Nathan Colquhoun
Naomi Klein \\ Yves Engler

Jan. 5, 2026

Naomi Klein’s silence on the disqualification of Yves Engler represents a betrayal of her intellectual legacy that protects a political dynasty at the expense of the radical left.

To Naomi Klein,

I am writing this as someone who has immersed himself in your work not as academic theory, but as a manual for survival and a lexicon for resistance. For decades, you have given us the language to name our oppressors and their tactics, and I'll be forever grateful.

02/01/26
Author: 
Sarah DeWeerdt
Alpine pennycress is one of a select group of plants that have evolved the ability to pull impressive amounts of valuable metals out of the soil. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jan. 1, 2026

Using plants to pull metal out of soil could help curb environmental destruction and human rights abuses.

Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into beautiful flattened seed pods that, in the words of botanist Liz Rylott from the United Kingdom’s University of York, “resemble a British old penny.”

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