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Robert Cropf: The Battle Over Truth

Trump, Data, and the Fight for Reality

August 15, 2025 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: Until Our Last Breath

In the last 22 months, the Israeli military has killed over 230 journalists, including multiple ones from Al Jazeera.

August 14, 2025 · 6 Comments

Thom Hartmann | Urgent Message to Progressives: Infiltrate Your Local Democratic Party Before It’s Too Late

Take over the party from the inside, from the bottom up!

August 13, 2025 · 7 Comments

Aviva Chomsky: The Nightmare in Gaza

Weaponizing Antisemitism as a Shield to Enable Genocide

August 12, 2025 · 10 Comments

Baron Wormser: If

If, as a poet suggested a long while ago, the center is not holding. If morality no longer has any practicable basis. If public statements are cant and platitude. If … Continue reading

August 11, 2025 · 13 Comments

Betsy Sholl: Monet’s Garden 

When he was painting his lilies,
when he was refusing evacuation
despite the war being close enough
to hear from his garden,
was Monet offering the world lilies,
saying there are lilies as well as guns?

August 8, 2025 · 26 Comments

Sarah Beckerman: What fantasy stories teach us about defeating authoritarianism

More than offering an escape, fantasy worlds can also show what courage looks like when the odds are stacked against you.

August 5, 2025 · 5 Comments

Alfred McCoy: Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump?

If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century version of our Trumpian moment, tariffs and all.

August 4, 2025 · 4 Comments

Cynthia Kaufman: Jewish Safety and the Weaponization of Antisemitism

The conflation of criticisms of Israel with antisemitism makes Jews less safe.

August 3, 2025 · 6 Comments

Thom Hartmann: Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History

His most dangerous crime is not simply corruption or obstruction, nor even incitement of insurrection: It’s the deliberate attempted destruction of American democracy itself. 

July 28, 2025 · 5 Comments

Michael Simms: Ecstasy & Envy

Someone offered me Ecstasy
And I wondered what they had in mind.
Perhaps lying on a beach on the island
Of Antigua, the sun on my skin, a red sail
In the distance soon to arrive?

July 27, 2025 · 63 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Torture Redux

The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.

July 22, 2025 · 6 Comments

Ryan Eckes: memo for labor

you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from … Continue reading

July 19, 2025 · 8 Comments

John Paul Lederach: Why movements need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders

For insights into building a broad-based pro-democracy movement take inspiration from nature.

July 18, 2025 · 2 Comments

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