Wednesday, September 16, 2026

What happened to Roseanne? The same thing that happened to lots of white people.

The Trump movement uses racism and immigration to turn the Roseanne Barrs of the world from eco-feminists to Trump supporters.

The revolution isn’t being televised

Media uninterested in protest movements around the world.

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.

‘Shame on Uber:’ Drivers on strike worldwide protesting ‘poverty wages’

"This is an act of solidarity with drivers across the country, and really across the world, who are suffering with poverty wages."

Little Rock, Arkansas launches program that invests in the city’s homeless population

The program is a “day's work for a day's pay and access to resources that will help them get to the next step to create the life that they want."
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Dangerous women embracing risk to change the world: Ava DuVernay, Ai-jen Poo, Abigail Disney...

“I didn’t ask for forgiveness ever or permission ever. I just did what I thought was right.”

What’s Left of the Left?

If progressives can't gain ground during today's hard times, full of disasters at home and abroad, then when? If progressives don't gain when the right lurches between disgrace and farce, gloating with lies that scandalize reality, then when? Bright spots surface, but what notable change, especially on income distribution, speaks to unified progressive activism?

My life with Maus

Or how I was banned (even if in a second-hand way) by a Trumpian world.
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$1 an hour to fight largest fire in CA history: Are prison firefighting programs...

According to some estimates, California avoids spending about $80-$100 million a year by using prison labor to fight its biggest environmental problem.

There’s a new crash coming

Skyrocketing debt, Wall Street deregulation, a fraying social safety net, and a diminished dollar could soon leave the United States looking like Greece.