Farruggio in 20/20
The more that working stiffs see the value in pulling back this empire to help the 99+ % of us...
Craft Beer vs. Budweiser: How Small-Brewers Are Winning Back the Neighborhood
Good beer comes from collaboration, not competition. By working together, small-brewers everywhere are giving corporations a run for their money.
Successful tool lending libraries force us to rethink what the public is willing to...
Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and devices and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.
Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx woman died at...
Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
How military veterans are answering the call to defend Black lives
From marching in the streets to forming human walls of protection around protesters, veterans are playing a quiet but important role in demanding racial justice.
Tennessee legislators strip $250.000 from Memphis for removing Confederate statues
Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted to strip away $250,000 from Memphis’ bicentennial celebration next year in retaliation for removing the historical monuments.
From a Lebanese refugee camp to Harvard, Ismail Ajjawi inspires other Palestinian students
Today marks a week since Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was denied entry into the United States, began classes with...
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 24
Nationwide walkout for sexual assault survivors, Kavanaugh struggles with more questions, undocumented immigrants refuse to testify on domestic abuse, and more.
Writing as Resistance
Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.
Vulnerable US citizens are still trapped in the ruins left by Hurricane Maria – would...
Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover.









