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The Split: 19 Reasons the Democrats Will Remain Divided

Naomi Klein, Rick Perlstein, Jill Filipovic, Keeanga Taylor New Republic
What do divisions in the Democratic party mean for its future? Featuring Naomi Klein, John Judis, Rick Perlstein, Rivka Galchen, Mark Green, Keeanga-Ymahtta Taylor and more.

What Will Bernie Do?

Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future
Sanders has been clear all along: He’s building a movement for radical change. Clinton won the nomination. She gets to choose whether to embrace that movement or ignore it, whether to adopt that platform or avoid it, whether to change the party or maintain the old order.

What Does ‘Latinx’ Mean? A Look at the Term that's Challenging Gender Norms

Yesenia Padilla Complex
Latinx (pronounced “La-TEEN-ex”) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of Latin American descent. Used by activists andsome academics, the term is gaining traction among the general public, after having been featured in publications such as NPR to Latina. But where did Latinx originate, and is everybody on board with using it?

What Does ‘Latinx’ mean? A Look at the Term that's Challenging Gender Norms

Yesenia Padilla Complex
Latinx (pronounced “La-TEEN-ex”) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of Latin American descent. Used by activists andsome academics, the term is gaining traction among the general public, after having been featured in publications such as NPR to Latina. But where did Latinx originate, and is everybody on board with using it?

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar The Curious Wavefunction
In what reviewer Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar calls a "poignant and beautiful, simple and without frills and from the heart" exposition, Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli guides us through seven of the main ideas of physics. These are, Jogalekar writes, not just ideas that have advanced our understanding of science, but they are also ideas that have "expanded our consciousness and connected us to our origins and future."

In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club

Justin Torres The Washington Post
Author Justin Torres reflects on Latin Night at the queer club: "You didn’t come here to be a martyr, you came to live, papi. To live, mamacita. To live, hijos. To live, mariposas....for a moment, I want to talk about the sacredness of Latin Night at the Queer Club. Amid all the noise, I want to close my eyes and see you all there, dancing, inviolable, free."

Film: The 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time

British Film Institute The Guardian
British Film Institute-Flare: London LGBT Film Festival is 30. Over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers voted for the 30 greatest LGBT films of all time.

Bernie Sanders, Labor, Ideology and the Future of American Politics

Bob Master New Labor Forum
As it turns out, language matters a lot. Calling these views as a whole “socialism” makes explicit a critique of capitalism and its shortcomings that cannot be grasped when the word itself is absent. It suggests that the reforms for which we fight are more than just an attempt to ameliorate the ills of a market-driven society; it says that it is the very system which is the problem, and which must be changed.