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In a dispatch from Paris for Harper’s, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit called the recent climate agreement negotiated there “miraculous and horrible.” This tension between the exciting and the awful, the transformative and the terrifying, motivates her book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Initially written in response to the Iraq War, the book will be re-released this month with a new section on climate change.

On February 13, ABC reporter Liz Kreutz tweeted a snippet of a Hillary Clinton speech and promptly sent the Internet into a frenzy of debate:

Reported as being 25 points down in the polls only one week ago, Bernie Sanders shocked the Clinton campaign—and more interestingly, political pundits and pollsters by besting Clinton in Michigan.

Much ink has been spilled regarding Bernie Sanders' poor showing with voters of color, particularly black voters. Suggested explanations have included his stance on reparations, his “class-first” or “single-issue” approach to addressing inequality, his poor handling of the Black Lives Matter protest at a Netroots conference in July 2015 or his inability to make a compelling case that he could deliver on his promises as president.