Politics
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‘Do we want to be a nation or not?’: Laurie Halse Anderson on censorship, book bans, and democracy
This interview has been edited for clarity, length, and flow. 1. Can you talk to me about the first time…
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This summer, rising temperatures cause concern for agricultural workers
The increasingly volatile and extreme weather has been affecting Josue’s health. After working in high temperatures outdoors, he feels exhausted…
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Ukraine Update: Russia’s supply and command and control hubs no longer safe from Ukrainian attack
HIMARS is finally in action, somewhere in Ukraine Early days of the war, the most videos showed anti-tank missiles like…
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Exploring the long history of Black music and the White House
According to music historians and those who have documented White House history, the first known appearance of a Black person to perform…
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The state of the union in a post-Dobbs world
Heather Cox Richardson writes at her Letters from an American blog that the Dobbs decision marks the end of an era. Today,…
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‘Unsafe in America’: Survey finds ‘disturbing’ increase in discrimination against LGBTQ people
Campaign Action Transgender and nonbinary people have been particularly affected, singled out for attack by bigoted, obsessed state lawmakers and activists. That…
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Sovereign-citizen scam artists bolster their audiences by adding QAnon beliefs to their mix
The Anti-Defamation League has been warning about this coalescence since January, with Lawrence and his cohort David Straight, who have…
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This Supreme Court also hates worker power, this week in the war on workers
Justice Samuel Alito This week, the Supreme Court gutted abortion rights. This is a workers’ issue, in a country where…
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Connect! Unite! Act! Building your local resistance
The sacrifice play One of the elements that made the original Star Wars so effective is that all of them…
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GOP discovers too late that Ukrainian Americans are a key voting bloc in battleground states
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has disgracefully debased himself to Putin for years. As Trump’s former White House press secretary…
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