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Eloise Goldsmith: Trump Blasted for Attack on Reproductive Care Across Numerous States

Nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates received notice on Monday that the administration is withholding Title X funding effective Tuesday.

April 2, 2025 · 4 Comments

Patricia A. Nugent: Scenes from a Tesla Takedown

When I first heard about it, I knew I’d go. I’ve been showing up for more than fifty years, starting with the Vietnam war.

April 1, 2025 · 13 Comments

Geoffrey Levin: Democrats, Call Them Names—But Do It Right

Democrats should be using labels like “Pro-Cancer,” “Job-Killers,” “Anti-Constitution,” and “Healthcare-Cutters” to tar congressional Republicans.

March 31, 2025 · 9 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle

Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on … Continue reading

March 27, 2025 · 9 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: EPA Staff Stand Firm As Administration Lobs Cuts, Baseless Accusations, and Cruelty

A decimated EPA means less scrutiny for another Flint water crisis, less eyeballs on Superfund sites, and limited ability to investigate toxic contamination after train derailments, such as the incident two years ago in East Palestine, Ohio.

March 26, 2025 · 4 Comments

Erica Chenoweth, et al: Resistance is alive and well in the United States

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

March 25, 2025 · 5 Comments

William D. Hartung: The New Age Militarists

According to this view, the rise of the West wasn’t due to “the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.”

March 24, 2025 · 9 Comments

George Yancy: How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?

Democracy-destroying forces thrive off militarism. We have to resist both. A conversation with Norman Solomon.

March 21, 2025 · 4 Comments

Ann Fisher-Wirth: Empathy

In the long long bliss of the breastfeeding years, I belonged to that rocking chair where sun filtered through the window and the leaves of the summer pomegranate shifted slowly in the hot June air.

March 19, 2025 · 13 Comments

Rachel Hadas: Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons

As he has gained fame and power, Trump’s contemptuous rage at his opponents and his appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened. 

March 18, 2025 · 7 Comments

Sam Carliner: How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression

As universities and the government crack down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped.    

March 17, 2025 · 5 Comments

Sonali Kolhatkar: 7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0

Grassroots movements, legal organizations, and nonprofits are leading the opposition.

March 11, 2025 · 4 Comments

Douglas H. White: Surviving Hard Times

The Last Generation of Black Americans Under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America

March 10, 2025 · 6 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Left in the wake are demonized and demoralized federal scientists.

March 9, 2025 · 6 Comments

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