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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

Daniel Hunter: We’re seeing the beginnings of mass noncompliance

Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.

March 7, 2025 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: These Little Men | An Everlasting Shame For America

The attempted ritual humiliation of Zelensky came as Ukraine, a small struggling democracy of 38 million people, is ravaged by a nation of 144 million led by a gangster.

March 6, 2025 · 12 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Pardon Me

The reason for the assault was absurd – an imagined slight over a game of cutthroat pinochle we had played earlier that day.

March 3, 2025 · 4 Comments

Baron Wormser: Bernie

Only one politician has come forward with a coherent response that he has taken to the people concerning what is occurring in the second administration of Donald Trump.

March 2, 2025 · 6 Comments

Julia Conley: Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders’ First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy

“The energy around what Bernie is doing is insane….”

February 27, 2025 · 8 Comments

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