A few of the recent pieces I recommend reading:

Stacey Abrams in Foreign Affairs: Identity Politics Strengthens Democracy

Zoeann Murphy and Chris Mooney in the Washington Post: Gone in a Generation: Across America, climate change is already disrupting lives

Alana Semuels at The Atlantic: The White Flight from Football

The Editors of Scientific American: An Open Letter to U.S. Scientist Legislators

Rosa Furneaux in Mother Jones: New Data Shows How the US Ban on Global Funds for Abortion Spectacularly Backfires

And if you didn’t already follow the link in last week’s post, here’s something worth watching and listening to: NPR’s Howard Berkes for PBS Frontline investigated the new epidemic of black lung disease in miners (featuring Celeste Monforton). Watch Coal’s Deadly Dust and hear more from affected miners here.