Tuesday, November 10, 2026

From Solitary to the Street: Coping with Freedom After Years in Prison Isolation

Approximately 80,000 prisoners are currently in solitary confinement, some being held in isolation for years. Thousands of prisoners are being released from solitary confinement directly back into communities without help with coping with this major transition.

The least sympathetic people in the entire world?

They just may be the super rich who’ve bought mega-million condos in midtown Manhattan’s now infamous needle towers.

North Dakota’s public bank was built for the people – now it’s financing police...

The nation’s only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it’s being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?
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Boycotting Trump

You need to be both a political activist and a consumer activist.

Medicaid Cutoffs: an America horror story

Some 15 million Americans on Medicaid are now being thrown off the program. No elected official should stand for this.

What is the point of your human life?

For some time now, I’ve been trying to assess the point of one’s human life.  What makes you (or me) important or...

Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction a sign of long history of police brutality

"You were told, for example, that Mr. Floyd died because his heart was too big […] [but] the truth of the matter is—that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr Chauvin’s heart was too small."

Girding for the education fight ahead

“If progressive education … is to be effective over the next several years, it will have to focus strategically on statehouses, school boards, city councils, and mayoral races.”

As Feds Probe Baltimore Police, Cops in Freddie Gray Case Seek Removal of Prosecutor...

Lawyers for six of the officers involved in the killing of Freddie Gray are challenging the role of Baltimore’s top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, claiming alleged conflicts of interest and "egregious" violations. Is this their way of possibly influencing the jurors?

Donald Trump’s $100-million men

For us, another day, another dollar. For them, another day, another fortune.