Sunday, July 26, 2026

I’ve covered seven mass shootings. These are the memories that haunt me.

Columbine High School. Platte Canyon High School. Virginia Tech. Deer Creek Middle School. Aurora movie theater. Arapahoe High School. Santa Fe High School. ProPublica reporter Jenny Deam reflects on covering them all.
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American Historical Assoc. votes overwhelmingly to support resolution to oppose Scholasticide in Gaza

We speak to Sherene Seikaly and Barbara Weinstein, two scholars who supported the resolution and helped push for the groundbreaking vote.

Clinton NEVER!

“Bill Maher, in claiming that only minor differences exist between the two, is either inexcusably ignorant, or more probably, simply bloviating the views of the Hollywood elites of which he is a card-carrying member.”

3 big ways that the US will change over the next decade

Hispanics and the other racial minorities will be the country’s main demographic engine of population change in future years; this is the most significant demographic change Americans will see.

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.

Parkland kids inspire a veteran to march

This won't be his last protest.

Congress loves socialized health care — for itself

For $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation...

Patriotism has little stature when the need for international collaboration has never been so...

Rather than encouraging the collective, global scientific approach the pandemic desperately needs, Trump deliberately isolates the United States from such a required international response.

Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated...

We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess—from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.
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Chris Hedges explains the importance of ‘robust’ public broadcasting

Hedges elaborates on why airtime for these “dissident voices” is more crucial than ever before.