14+ hour, 22+ min ago   (1079+ words) Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator. Louisiana residents are mobilizing in opposition to the immigration jail with the help of CENLA Activism, a grassroots group of concerned residents…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (237+ words) Lonnie Bunch, the head of the Smithsonian Institution, announced his retirement after a months-long battle with the Trump administration over exhibitions. Bunch will depart at the end of the year, after nearly 50 years at the Smithsonian, according to reports on…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1300+ words) Hi Lena. Your documentary begins with the failure of global climate policy, particularly of the European Green Deal. It then continues and connects climate change to perpetual growth, militarisation, Europe’s anti-migration policies, the genocide in Gaza, and imperialism. Why was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (521+ words) How is it that so many young Americans have come to espouse Marxist ideas and want to impose them, even by force if necessary, on the rest of us? Marxism has the most abysmal track record imaginable. How could it…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1202+ words) “The woman who was ahead of the women, who were ahead of their time.” One hundred and fifty years ago, on July 4, 1876, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, our founding feminist foremothers were speaking past their own lifetimes—straight to us,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (239+ words) So begins Skye Perryman’s sobering but hopeful and practical new book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times. Though this handbook for hard times is elevated by a we’re-all-in-it-together spirit, Perryman, an attorney and president and CEO of Democracy Forward, doesn’t sugarcoat what…...