Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Increased restrictions on protest won’t keep communities safer

Instead of looking to combat-ready police to solve the problem of public disruption, the community itself has the capacity to create structures of safety and support by focusing on solidarity and confronting the foundational issues that are causing the violence in the first place.

The six ways football groomed us for President Trump

Still going to watch the Super Bowl?

Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s...

The fortunes of popular protest may well depend on whether the collective leadership of the movements can provide answers to it.

In ‘glimmer of accountability,’ executives, loggers charged in 2014 murders of four Indigenous land...

Environmental campaigners called the charges "unprecedented."

A year after the Tree of Life shooting, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant racism thrive

Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.

In this time of crisis, we need to keep our eyes open

Both eyes open. Look for potential threats coming from all sides. Be prepared to change course at a moment’s notice.

It’s spring and I’ve turned 71 in a pandemic-induced recession

But when we come out of it, we have to come out vowing never to return to the madness that was American society before COVID-19.
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‘This is my home:’ Meet the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case to...

The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

The age of disappointment?

Or how the American century ends...
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Denver teachers strike over bonus-based pay system, demanding reliable salary plan & better wages

The Denver teachers walked out Monday following 15 months of negotiations over a controversial bonus-based pay system that educators say leaves them unable to predict their salaries and guarantee financial security.