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Watershed moment

Margaret H. Freeman (MICA): The Aesthetics of Human Cognition. Why the Google walkout was a watershed moment in tech. “We were never taught”: Young Jews in the U.S. encounter anti-Semitism firsthand. Is it safe to be Jewish in New York? Hate crimes in the city are largely driven by incidents of anti-Semitism — and the aggressors don’t conform to an easy profile. The politics of Latinx recognition: A new fluid, multiracial and multicultural identity is emerging in American politics. J.C. Pan reviews The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre. Eleanor Tremeer on why we need utopian fiction now more than ever.

Margaret Hartmann on the complete history of President Trump’s feud with Jeff Sessions. Why Jeff Sessions’ ouster as attorney general is so important. A history of new acting AG Whitaker’s war on the Mueller probe (and more). Sessions’s ouster throws future of special counsel probe into question. What Jeff Sessions’s resignation could mean for the Mueller investigation. What does Jeff Sessions’s ouster mean for Robert Mueller? Here are 3 scenarios. What would happen if Trump resists an investigation by the Democratic House? There could be a major conflict and even a slow-motion constitutional crisis.