What the coronavirus says about us
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.
Instead of buying guns or hoarding food, let’s feed each other
COVID-19 will change us. It’s just a question of how.
After the civil rights era, white Americans failed to support systemic change to end...
More whites are willing to acknowledge white racial privilege, but only about one in eight support reparations to Blacks.
Martin Luther King, Jr., internationalist
His outlook went well beyond our borders.
How activists can fight through doom and gloom to be more effective
When the biggest changes seem impossible, activists can still take important steps to empower themselves and build for long-term success.
New Fox News National Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton
The new poll is the first to show Clinton trailing Sanders. Similar polls show Bernie behind, but closing the gap.
‘Fake news’ in America: Homegrown, and far from new
The corporate state created this monstrous propaganda machine and bequeathed it to Trump.
Top 10 Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism
This week Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all counts in the Boston Marathon bombings. However, there was not much Muslim recognizable in his and his brother's style of life. Here are 10 ways that the Tsarnaev brothers broke Muslim law, according to Juan Cole.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
The case against WikiLeaks is a crisis for the First Amendment
The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists.