Trump, Threats to Data, and US Cities
Notes on the struggle to keep the US government from going back on its promises of greater transparency. John Wonderlich writes.
What Hospitals Waste
The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. Marshall Allen began tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.
Anticipation
Poetry by Max Reif.
Shorter Work Weeks Will Defeat the Robots
Dean Baker returns to robots and jobs and leisure.
For the Fragile Muses
Fiction by D. Jason Fleming.
Sunday Comics
Watch it burn, reluctantly he leaves/Watch it burn, Sunday Comics make him wheeze/Watch it burn, humming “Sherry,” splits the scene
Immortal Impressions
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
Free Thing of the Week: Gog and Magog
For your summer reading, The Star brings you a free new epub of Ciaran O’Driscoll’s chapbook, Gog and Magog to make you feel the verse.
Diversity Helps Us All
It’s still possible to seek diversity, even for white guys in corporate America. Jack Botam writes.
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