3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy
Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.
How a black farming community found justice
Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But at one time, she wanted to leave farming far...
The 5 biggest corporate lies about unions
Don’t believe the corporate lies.
How the police killing of a Black Brazilian teen sparked a movement
The police killing of João Pedro Mattos Pinto, a 14-year-old Black Brazilian in Rio de Janeiro, unmasked the scope of police brutality amid a pandemic and led to an unprecedented court decision.
Trump, the GOP and Media Pivot to ‘Normal’
Now that he has clinched the nomination, here comes the effort to shape Donald Trump’s image as a regular guy. But he remains “an existential threat.”
Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina
In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?
New NRA ad warns Trump opponents ‘will perish in the political flames of their...
This is not the first time the NRA has released a video featuring Loesch that is laden with violent innuendo.
Why the common good disappeared (and how we get it back)
The challenge is to turn all this into a new public spiritedness extending to the highest reaches in the land.
A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”
Exploring the top immigrant-friendly cities in the United States
In the years and decades since, many cities have passed their ordinances to defend immigrants and refugees by various means.








