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In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?

"These shameful actions—and the Republican tax law that permitted them—indicate just how rigged the system is against working people and the middle class."

Despite harping on baseless “voter fraud” myths for years, Fox News has virtually ignored this apparent case of actual election fraud.

Mass shootings, economic inequality, a racist president: have we grown dangerously accustomed to a country gone mad?

The "devastating effects of COVID-19 on the economic and physical well-being of black Americans were entirely predictable given persistent economic and health disparities."

The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better.

In media and government, the journalists and officials who enable blacklisting are cravenly siding with conformity instead of democracy.

“The biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States.”

"With our throwaway lifestyles, we are fueling climate change, pollution and the destruction of people’s homes and irreplaceable natural wonders. MAKE SMTHNG Week offers a fun and creative way out of this wasteful consumerism."

Students who survived the massacre quickly came to national prominence as leading activists for gun control.