Culture

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."

What happened for many years to gays on Fire Island seems like a nightmare of another time – and it was.

"To the extent that the industry is in the business of expanding the system so they can make more money off holding more immigrants that can be confined, and doing everything possible to profit off of it by labor processes like getting detainees to work and paying them a dollar a day, there is very little distinction you can draw between slave labor and what they're doing."

Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.

The cold war has already turned hot — on the internet...

When the biggest changes seem impossible, activists can still take important steps to empower themselves and build for long-term success.

An authoritarian approach to such a threat can never work – democracies have to lead.

The Anti–Terrorism Proclamation is known to punish so-called "troublesome journalists" who might criticize the government or publish articles featuring opposition. The brutal gang ruling is no worse than in Ethiopia.

It was the biggest display of athletic defiance in years.

Betsy DeVos is bad, but the bankers she serves are even worse.