Big Ban on Campus
Professors have long been political targets. But a spate of recent threats against scholars — including two that have led to campus closures — is raising fresh concerns about safety and academic...
View ArticleFifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America
In 2025, assuming the world is still around, we’ll be noting the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 in America, mourning the dead and recalling how so many of us pulled together in the face of adversity....
View ArticleWhat Happens When Our President Declares He Needs to Dominate the Battle Space?
Yesterday Trump told American state governors: "You have to dominate, if you don’t dominate you’re wasting your time. They’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have...
View ArticleWe Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes
Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves. Continue reading The post We Hold This Truth...
View ArticleAdvocates Sue Trump Administration Over Mass Border Expulsions
Advocacy organizations have sued the Trump administration to stop a 16-year-old boy from being summarily sent back to Honduras after he crossed into the U.S. last week to join his father. It’s the...
View ArticleREMEMBERING JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Bill Moyers sit down with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to discuss the most pressing global issues faced by present-day women leaders. Continue reading The post REMEMBERING JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG...
View ArticleHow A New Supreme Court Could Forever Change America
David Sirota speaks with UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, the author of the book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. He has also written a series of articles for The...
View ArticleI Read it in the Post
Democrats have hammered home that putting Barrett on the court at this moment is an extraordinary power grab, and voters seem to agree. Turning attention away from the hearings would be useful for the...
View ArticleDo I Have to Have That Vaccine?
If approved, the vaccine could be in use by mid-to-late December 2020. But what about people who choose not to get the vaccine? What about people who have religious beliefs that are not in concert with...
View ArticleFree Speech. Really?
Bill Moyers talks with journalist and writer Ellis Cose whose most recent book is THE SHORT LIFE & CURIOUS DEATH OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA. Continue reading The post Free Speech. Really? appeared...
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