"A common misconception is that they—unlike us—lack genuine moral values. We are caring people, but they are trying to burn everything down. We are fighting for goodness; they are working for evil." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-overestimate-political-opponents-immorality/

The Conservative Party Popularity Contest: How the first Conservative leadership election modernised the party in the 1960s. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/conservative-party-popularity-contest

It Was Rare, But Ancient People Sometimes Needed to Translate Languages — Here's How https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/while-rare-ancient-people-sometimes-needed-to-translate-languages-heres-how

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-recovering-history-little-known-lakota-massacre-could-heal-generation-pain-180985226/

"Long before he became one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors and campaign surrogates, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/

Morning Briefing: As Donald Trump continues to call perceived political opponents the “enemy within," candidates and political party offices continue to be the targets of threats and vandalism ahead of Election Day. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-threats-and-vandalism-election-day

Recommended Reading: Media’s Silent Endorsement of Authoritarianism https://www.radicalreports.org/p/recommended-reading-silent-endorsement-authoritarianism

"I'm shocked that American conservatives would attempt to defend or justify any admiration of an autocratic dictator like Adolf Hitler!"

"...public servants are actually far more constrained by democratic values and processes than people realize, and perhaps even more than elected officials." https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-bureaucrats-are-more-accountable

Extremists Links: There have been 'at least 300 cases of political violence identified by Reuters since Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including at least 51 incidents this year.' https://www.radicalreports.org/p/extremists-links-contentious-election

"They latched onto a new reference in the updated directive—'lethal force'—and soon were falsely claiming that the change means Kamala Harris had authorized the military to kill civilians if there is unrest after the election. That’s flat-out not true." https://thewarhorse.org/far-right-misinformation-military-policy-lethal-force/

All Travelers are Infiltrators: An Introduction to the Study of Travel Writing https://daily.jstor.org/all-travelers-are-infiltrators-an-introduction-to-the-study-of-travel-writing/

"The fact that everything from temperatures to precipitation patterns to bird migration trajectories is falling out of whack is contributing to kinds of trauma." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-the-temperature-on-global-conflict/

Polar Bears Are Exposed to More Parasites, Viruses and Bacteria as the Arctic Heats Up https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/polar-bears-are-exposed-to-more-parasites-viruses-and-bacteria-as-the-arctic-heats-up-180985330/

State of Local News Report: "...chronicles declines in local news across the United States by essentially every important metric: number of newspapers; publication frequency; employment; circulation and readership." https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/medills-2024-state-of-local-news-report-expands-what-it-qualifies-as-local-news-and-asks-readers-to-point-out-what-it-missed/

Morning Briefing: Far right activists are laying the groundwork for various rationales and justifications for GOP state lawmakers dismiss election results, and determine the results of the Presidential election. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-far-right-activists-election-results

“It was embarrassing. He met with our county’s task force, he met with the sheriffs, he met with all our police investigators, everything—and he could not find anything wrong.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/panic-sylacauga-immigration-haiti/680308/

White Supremacists use natural disasters as an opportunity to spread propaganda and increase recruitment, playbook has been utilized again in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-hurricanes-an-opportunity

A Donald Trump Victory Would Open the Door to a Dangerous new Era of the Global Far Right https://bylinetimes.com/2024/10/22/donald-trump-victory-would-open-the-door-to-a-dangerous-new-era-of-the-global-far-right/

He Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-louisiana-houma-shipbuilding-jobs-safety