Tag: history
This Black History Month, don’t ban our history—teach it
May we instead “seize the opportunity” to honor Black Americans, as President Ford urged—from past to present.
Top 6 ways our world changed in 2021
It is time to look back at 2021 and consider the most consequential developments.
How Portland’s activists are bringing mutual aid to the homeless
Mutual aid offers a route to directly help people living outside, and potentially save lives through the winter months.
What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before...
Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.
Why the Taliban’s promise to stop the opium trade rings hollow
Uncertainty abounds over what the Taliban’s opium policy will actually look like. In the meantime, the farmers are planting the seeds for next year’s crop right now.
How an ancient irrigation method makes sustainable life possible in the...
Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions.
Where the Federal government’s charter school program went wrong
The program gives millions to schools that disrupt rather than improve a system of public education that needs to serve all students.
How Biden’s agenda is shaped by the corporate class
A national government that represents corporations and routinely lies to its voters needs Silicon Valley and the corporate press to maintain a stranglehold over the dissemination of information.
The scary truth is many senate Dems share the same corporate...
She’s exactly the kind of judge corporate donors support.
Trump calls Howard Zinn’s work ‘propaganda.’ Hear the legendary historian in...
Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.
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Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a national trust bank
The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.
Lorain County caseworkers reach day 180 of a strike over a dollar an hour
Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.
‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!
To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...
The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.