Thursday, July 17, 2025

This Black History Month, don’t ban our history—teach it

May we instead “seize the opportunity” to honor Black Americans, as President Ford urged—from past to present.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 12

Law students launch nationwide strike against illegitimate justice, Chinese intel officer arrested and charged with economic espionage, Enbridge Pipeline explosion forces First Nations community to flee, and more.

After thousands of years, western science is slowly catching up to Indigenous knowledge

New research about how birds use fire to get a broader food supply comes as no surprise to Indigenous people.

Nepo babies and the myth of the meritocracy

Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.

Climate crisis: What we can learn from indigenous traditions

By ignoring what Indigenous people know about how to protect their forests, we lose potential solutions to the climate crisis.

‘Horrific:’ In dead of night, Trump administration transferring children to tent camp with no...

"Please remember there are 13,000 migrant children in detention. We can't forget about them."

A culture shift can only happen with reparations and truth telling

The future is upon us, but it must be one that we can choose and see ourselves in. This requires a local, national, and global effort.

Redacting democracy: Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of American history

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.

Class war — not the media hokey pokey — is what it’s all about

Maybe you don’t want to call it class war. But whatever you call it, the system always makes a killing.