Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Why are there more mass killings on Trump’s watch than before?

If there are more right-wing extremists, then the Trump rhetoric is promoting their violent acts, not dissuading them.

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum

‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear.
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“Toni Morrison will always be with us”: Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez...

Toni Morrison, one of the nation’s most influential writers, died this week at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia. In...

Organizing the rich or the poor?

Which America will be ours after the pandemic?

Living in an age of desire and anxiety

What is causing this epidemic?

Forbidden questions?

24 key issues that neither the Washington elite nor the media consider worth their bother.

How the spirit of the indigenous occupation of Alcatraz lives on, 50 years later

In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.

We won’t go back to normal, because normal was the problem

When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart.

An unlikely city in the South could be home to a public education renaissance

Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.

Staying hopeful in turbulent times

Which is why we have to keep up the fight even when feeling deeply discouraged.