Friday, March 29, 2024

Senate VAWA bill ‘undercuts tribal sovereignty’

“Placing paternalistic restrictions on tribal courts in the name of 'due process' is nothing more than a disguise for prejudice."

A veteran’s case for canceling student debt and making higher education tuition-free

The G.I. Bill helped millions realize a future they otherwise may not have ever known. We can do the same again—on an even larger scale.

The coronavirus crash could be worse than the republican great depression of 1930

If we succeed in rebooting American manufacturing through the measures used by Hamilton (and emulated by China over the past 30 years), our recovery from this crisis could mark a new dawn for the American middle class.

The banality of evocation

Perhaps in 2020, the best monuments to the fight for women’s rights — for all our rights — may look nothing like what most of us would imagine.

Can social movements realign America’s political parties to win big change?

Groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving the old idea of realignment, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

Juneteenth for white folk

Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?

An unlikely city in the South could be home to a public education renaissance

Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.

Main Street Shopping and the Internet

Is the internet going to take it all when it comes to retail?

Shelter within the storm: A dialog on politics and culture

A dialog on the artist’s role in times of extreme societal and cultural alienation and worldwide crisis.

California approves net neutrality law, defying FCC

21 states and the District of Columbia are suing the FCC in an attempt to reverse their decision to repeal net neutrality.